[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jk0p8a$sah$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>
> If you don't like it, use a soft mount, otherwise that is considered
> correct. 

   The problem, exactly.  It is not correct and the folks who consider
   it so have a lot to learn.
 
> If you are writing to a disk, and the disk doesn't respond fast enough,
> you don't normally expect the system to just throw away the data you
> thought you wrote, do you? 

   No.  I'd expect to it that block one, and only that one process.  Or
   any other process accessing that disk.