[SunRescue] symlinks

David Rouse drouse at arlington.newsargus.com
Fri Mar 3 10:23:55 CST 2000


> Chech this out, Microsoft just "invented" symlinks out of the blue.  
How
> long have these been available in *nix?
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
> 

Without saying what I think about the idea, I think what MS has done is 
have the OS create the links on the fly, by itself, without telling 
anyone. In other words, it looks for duplicate files and merges them (as 
far as disk space is concerned). I *hope* (for the sake of any W2K 
users) that the OS can reliably un-merge files as well.

--  
David Rouse
Network Manager
Goldsboro News-Argus








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