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

[AEF]

On Apr 29, 7:17 pm, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:43:42 UTC, AEF <spamsink2... 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.

Is the entire system a file, too? Just open it up and you can see
everything! :-)

Re the disk:

What do I do?

$ cat <name of disk>
$ od <name of disk>

And od can't even read a directory on some systems!

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

AEF