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Vista To Get Symlinks?

Posted by Zonk on from the sounds-like-another-os-i-know dept.

TheRealSlimShady writes "According to a post by Ward Ralston on the Windows server team's weblog, Vista server is to get symlinks as part of the SMB2 protocol." From the post: "In Vista/Longhorn server, the file system (NTFS) will start supporting a new filesystem object (examples of existing filesystem objects are files, folders etc.). This new object is a symbolic link. Think of a symbolic link as a pointer to another file system object (it can be a file, folder, shortcut or another symbolic link)."

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  1. Yet more great by Skiron · · Score: 5, Funny

    innovation from MS.

    1. Re:Yet more great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea, they better hurry up and patent it before those unix hippies copy it.

    2. Re:Yet more great by kd3bj · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's next?

      Forward slashes?

      Text files without ^m's?

    3. Re:Yet more great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      all your symbolic links are belong to SCO

  2. Allow me to be the first to say... by Noryungi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to the 1980s, Microsoft.

    (Who was it who said: 'Those who don't know UNIX are condemned to recreate it. Badly.' ?)

    --
    The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
  3. Fantastic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Symbolic Link and SMB2 - should I also be waiting for ZeldaFS and MegaMon?

  4. MS Motto by psiekl · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are the leaders, wait for us!

  5. Duplication... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is a compliment of the highest form.

  6. Re:Great... but by gargleblast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Multiple streams are an absurdity. "Ok contestants, repeat after me: 'A file is a variable-length array of bytes.'" Steve Jobs: "A file is two variable-length arrays of bytes." BZZT. "Sorry Steve, thanks for playing." Bill Gates: "A file is N variable-length arrays of bytes." BZZT. "Whoops Bill, that's a directory. Looks like you're out too! Join us next week on 'Who wants to be an architect!'"

    Reparse points are more commonly known in the UNIX community as 'mount points.'

  7. FAT does it too... by spiff42 · · Score: 5, Funny
    NTFS does support hardlinks

    Well. So does FAT, except it is called a crosslink, and aparently scandisk and various disk defragmentation tools do not handle it correctly ;-)

    /Spiff