[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/21/12 17:33, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<b9NYr.4322$3p2.4259 at fx03.am4>, ChrisQ<meru at devnull.com>  writes:
>>
>> As for RMS, a file system is to store bytes and any imposed structure on
>> the data should be layered on elsewhere. So yes, you will have to write it
>> yourself :-)...
>
>     "a file system is to store bytes"
>
>     Nope.  Meaningless hype.

ymmv, but the ideal file system really doesn't want to know about 
various data
formats. It's main function is to store and retrieve data. Good system 
layering
naturally offloads various data formats onto the programs that make use 
of them.
If many programs all use the same data organisation, then you write a 
library layer
to deal with that and do the conversions.

Perhaps you could answer the question: Why RMS and on disk structure was 
built
into the filesystem at the time, to understand why it may not be so 
relevant now.
afaics, there were very good reasons...

Regards,

Chris