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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <0036b4f6$0$14681$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
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> 
> When you consider that DUMP provides records in a different order than
> the "ls" command, it is safe to assume that VMS fully synthetizes the
> "usr.dir" file, complete with sorted entries so it doesn't actually list
> its contents.
> 
> Can anyone tell whether the output of the DUMP/RECORD shows "VMS"
> directory contents or would those be of a unix directory file that were
> just sorted ?

   The problem of whether directory contents are stored sorted and
   whether they are displayed sorted is very old and has been many 
   times solved.

   There is never a requirement to display data in the order stored.
   Those of us who took RSX systems from FCS to RMS recall the day we
   got a built-in solution on our PDP-11.