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

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sun Apr 26 07:10:58 EDT 2009


In article <49f39dad$0$90269$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> David J Dachtera wrote:
>> ChrisQ wrote:
>>> David J Dachtera wrote:
>>>> I'm stuck with AIX and jfs2.
>>> Have no experience of aix at all. Have heard bad things about it, but
>>> what's your expeience ?.
>>>
>>> Comes from ibm and it has been around for a long time, so one would
>>> expect it to be at least competent, even if neglected...
>> 
>> Competent? Agreed!
>> 
>> ...but it's still UN*X.
> 
> My impression is that more VMS systems are migrated to AIX than
> to HP-UX.
> 
> At the user level AIX is just another *nix.

Which is not the bad thing people here seem to think.

> 
> When I last had to do something admin on AIX approx. 12 years
> ago, then my impression was that AIX was significant different
> from other Unix'es regarding how to do things.

I have never had the chance to work with AIX but while it may have a
few homegroen admin ustilities I doubt it is significantly differnt
under the hood.

bill

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