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

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:09 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
wrote:

> In article <nklj9qhLtDS5 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> > In article <75lp9oF18tkroU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> >> 
> >> Of course, the question becomes, "Why?"  Isn't that like smashing your
> >> carburator in order to force the mechanic to change the fuel filter.  :-)
> > 
> >    Because it's more like opening the hood to get at the carburator.
> 
> How?  Opening my hood doesn't brea anything.  But this is asking, "How do
> I manually trash my filesystem so fsck can fix it?"  Why would one ever
> "want" to remove a file without doing it in a manner that let's the system
> do it cleanly?  (Hint:  In 30 years of admining Unix systems I have never
> needed to use clri.)

I needed to use it a couple of times in the early days (33 years ago) 
but not since. My point in mentioning 'clri' is that someone here 
thought that functionality was essential on VMS to tidy up a borked 
directory, and (by implication) that 'Unix' was broken if it couldn't do
it. In practice, it seems that VMS *needs* it and Unix doesn't.

-- 
Bob Eager