On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:55:50 +0100
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ____/ Robin T Cox on Saturday 14 July 2007 18:59 : \____
>
> > Vista keeps something called a shadow copy that backs up your work
> > in the unused space on the hard drive. It’s designed to prevent
> > data loss; but with it that data will stay on the computer—perhaps
> > forever. Windows systems have been replicating data similarly in
> > recent releases, but Vista makes it easier for forensic examiners
> > to find deleted data.
>
> So this is why shadow copy is running even when the data cannot be
> recovered (Basic/Home Edition). This also explains why Vista is so
> slow. It is 'gathering some evidence' all the time. Deletion, which
> is amazingly slow, was blamed on DRM, but apparently it's something
> else altogether.
>
> How about Vista's spyware features? (phoning Redmond with heaps of
> information).
>
> Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one. The more time goes by,
> the more people discover, and the uglier this vision (Vista) looks.
If you alter a file, I imagine it has to copy the whole lot.
This is such a stupid move. The harddisk is the bottle neck on most
computers. In many cases 1gib network cards can push data faster than
the disks, why would anyone want to make things slower? It really
shouldn't be part of the install.
Imagine, something like a BDB file having to be replaced hundreds of
times when records are updated, supposing with something like a
timestamp column. When a transaction is closed then the file has to be
copied.
What about the registry also? Wouldn't this have to be copied time and
time again as it's being updated? Jesus, it's so stupid to do this by
default. I don't mind the idea of shadow copies, in some cases it might
be useful, on something like /var/www or /var/log, /etc and /home, but
for a registry, and /usr that's just stupid.
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