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

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:58:56 UTC, 
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-totuOmdtgW5K at rikki.tavi.co.uk>, "Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> > 
> > Nobody said VMS was broken! The VMS file system has many advantages. I 
> > merely pointed out that ffs, at any rate, didn't seem to need a way to 
> > recover from that situation.
> 
>    ffs never has to recover from a unreadable block?  How does that one
>    get data when a block becomes unreadable sometime after a successfull
>    write (journals and RAID I understand, but I have no knowledge of
>    what ffs is using)?

An unreadable block is simply that. No different to one that's been 
cleared. Orphaned files that can be recovered.

SET FILE/NODIRECTORY is for when a block is readable, but corrupt in a 
way that screws things up badly. 
-- 
Bob Eager