On 6/21/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not so good things: > 1. It is pretty big pig -- it squats in 500MB of memory, uses about 60GB of > disk, and it took over an hour to boot up the first time, and quite a long > time the second time; after defragging the disk, it boots in a reasonable > time.
If you want to see a very interesting analysis of some of the serious issues with Vista and their new anti-drm measures and what their costs are in terms of system stability and their attitude towards their user base see http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html > 2. Although the new directory structure has more reasonable directory names > (shorter and no spaces), they have provided "junctions" to the old names > for compatibility. Unfortunately few third party programs such > as Bacula know about junctions, so they get confused, and typically > this manifests itself as references to files/directories that do not seem > to exist ... > 6. Due to junctions not being really downward compatible, the Bacula menu > links to the conf files complain that the file does not exist. By the > way, junctions have been around for a while, but were apparently never > used in a default install. However, on Vista, there are a lot of > junctions in the default install. [snip] > 3. Junctions are another story, and I have no idea how much work that is > going to be. As you say junctions are not new with Vista, they have existed for ages on NTFS filesystems. For instance I use junctions occasionally when i support friends who have been foolish enough to install development software (especially open source related stuff like cygwin) into a path with spaces in it. If you arent already aware of it you probably should have a poke around the sysinternals site (now owned by MS) for advanced windows diagnostics utilities. While im not too happy about MS buying out the sysinternals guys (although im happy for the guys who got rich out of it :-) one modest bonus from it was that they are now releasing their full utility set as a single zip, which makes life much easier. I swear by filemon and procexp personally, especially the latter. Anyway, returning to on topic you should have a look at the junction utility: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx Afaik Perl knows how to deal with Junctions, so ill have a poke around to see whats up, certainly Bacula should know about them and deal with them gracefully. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
