[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/23/12 17:46, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> So basically, what you are saying is that when using the file system
> interfaces, a file (on disk or anywhere else) is a stream of bytes (in
> Unix).
> I have no problem with that. It's just not the "lowest level of a disk",
> nor can all I/O be done through the file system.
>
> Johnny
>

That's it. Most application programmers don't normally need to know about
on disk structure, nor should they need to, as it's too low level. Only
driver writers need to be concerned with block level code. Any file system
is ideally layered on top of the driver itself and should be transparent
to any structure imposed by applications above to be most generally usefull.
The only way to achieve that is to say that the file system interface 
should
be in some generic data size of the machine.

Tape and comms are io, but they are a different can of worms :-)...

Regards,

Chris