[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Tue Apr 21 09:21:11 EDT 2009


In article <49ed212e$0$20535$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Also interested in how mount points are implemented. Are they just like
> a glorified directory file ?

   A UFS mount point is a directory file.  You can put files and
   subdirectories in it when it's not used for a mount.  Those files
   and subdirectories are inaccessable when the directory is used
   for a mount, making them much more hidden than the .name convention.




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