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

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-uSusmdQq9Df8 at rikki.tavi.co.uk>, "Bob Eager"
<rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> 
> 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.

In fact, it seems it does not even exist on modern Unices anymore.
At least I couldn't find it on Linux or AIX.
HP-UX seems to have it, but only for hfs filesystems
(which is pretty useless because most filesystems will be jfs).