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

[Bob Koehler]

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.

   Nobody said UNIX was broken if it couldn't do it.  The question was
   why VMS has it, and an answer was given.  It was pointed out that
   other OS needed some way to recover from the same situation (a
   corrupt disctory), but no claim was made as to how that had to be
   implemented.