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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
 
>   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.

Do an NFS mount on the parent file system and those files
will be visible.  (At least on unix versions of NFS.)

NFS servers work on the file system level, ignoring mount points.
(Among other reasons, to be sure that inode numbers are unique.)

-- glen