Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links

From: Mark Hahn (hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 11:18:29 EST


> Because if they are first then this is the first case that I know of
> Microsoft 'inventing' things.

it's just a content-addressable filestore. nothing new, and definitely
unrelated to symlinks. the point is to uniquify files, almost certainly
by tracking their hash/checksum. can certainly be done as fast as 'normal'
fileservice, if not faster.

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