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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <gt4stj$j17$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
	m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> 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.

Define "modern Unices".  It certainly exists in FreeBSD 7.1 although
BSD has been saying for quite some time that it is: "obsoleted for normal
file system repair work by fsck(8)."

> At least I couldn't find it on Linux or 

Mild pedant, that is not a "modern Unix"  It's Linux.  And, it had it
so either your particular install doesn't or they decided to just
remove it as it is obsolet.

>                                            AIX.

Never had the cahnce to work with AIX, although I would really like to.

> HP-UX seems to have it, but only for hfs filesystems
> (which is pretty useless because most filesystems will be jfs).

Probably becasue it is obsolete.  As stated above: "it seems that VMS
*needs* it and Unix doesn't."

bill

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