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

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:18:27 UTC, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) 
wrote:

> 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).

I have it on FreeBSD for ffs (basically ufs). But it does say that fsck 
has superseded it; in the same way, one would have expected 
ANALYZE/VERIFY to have been fixed so that borked dircetories couldn't 
take it down (and perhaps, again, it has).
-- 
Bob Eager