Actually, this may be slightly, different. It appears taht if you write
a file to disk, windows automaticly recognizes it as a duplicate and manually
links it for you.
This means one of two things:
1) Windows scans your drive for duplicates at EVERY write, thus blowing
disk and cpu utilization off the wall.
2) Windows keeps inventory of every file at every write either in cache
or memory. Oh yeah, this will really help performance.
I think it's these inovations that keep Windows blazing along on my K6-2-500
comparably fast to my P200 Laptop running Gnome/Enlightenment.
No wonder hardware vendors like windows. Gotta keep upgrading.
Robert
Thus spake Burton Windle (bwindle@atlantic.net):
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
>
> REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2000 -- Three years ago, Bill Bolosky and two
> Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology advances when an idea
> occurred to them -- why not save operating system disk space by storing
> duplicate files as links that point to a single file housed in a central
> location?
>
> Not only would this save storage space, they reasoned;
> it would also result in substantial performance improvements. Moreover, it
> would make it faster for information technology (IT) managers
> to install computers for new employees since theyd no longer be
> required to copy massive amounts of data each time they set up a
> new desktop.
>
>
> Signed,
> Burton Windle
> +----------------------------------------------+
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> | Atlantic.net Network Operations Center |
> +----------------------------------------------+
>
>
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