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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

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).

It exists on Solaris 8, 9, and 10!
sunblok_# uname -a
SunOS sunblok 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
sunblok_# man clri
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Maintenance Commands                                     clri(1M)

NAME
      clri, dcopy - clear inode

SYNOPSIS
      clri [ -F FSType ]  [ -V ]  special  i-number

      dcopy [ -F FSType ]  [ -V ]  special  i-number

DESCRIPTION
      clri writes zeros on the inodes with the decimal i-number on
      the  file system stored on  special. After  clri, any blocks
      in the affected file show up as missing in an   fsck(1M)  of
      special.