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

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:43:42 UTC, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The primary one I can think of is that everything on the volume really
> *is* a file. Everything in the volume is "transparent". In Unix, at
> least the ones I have access to I don't know how to dump the super
> block or inodes. And on one of them I can't even dump a directory!
> 
> So can you or anyone else tell us more of the advantages? And on the
> Unix side if there is a way to read the super block and inodes? So
> much for "everything is a file in Unix".

Simple.  The whole *disk* is a file. Open it, and you can seek to any 
block on the disk, the read/write it.

Mind, I prefer the VMS way of doing it...
-- 
Bob Eager