[Info-vax] ODS5 on Linux

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 16:38 -0700, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 8:37:41 PM UTC-4, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>  
> > Unfortunately I could not find the source code - does anyone knows where
> > I can locate and download the sources? 
> 
> Hopefully you'll get access to it and you can give it a whirl to see if
> it meets your needs.

Sadly, the source code is not available but the author is more than
happy to build the kernel module and associated files on request.

> One of the things that I had noticed when I saw others play with this
> is that it falls short of what you might really want.  For example,
> because it doesn't coordinate with the VMS lock manager, there's no
> safe way for it to share even read access.  This limits the solution to
> only offline access where the volume is fully dismounted from any VMS
> node.

Eh? ODS5 can't write to the VMS disk image anyway. 

> I suspect that what people would really want (at least those drawn to
> this driver) would be a way to get real time access to all files
> through all native APIs.  But I think the only effective way to do that
> is to broker the access through a VMS node such that the off box access
> points look and feel like equal players in the clustered relationship
> with the file system.

It would be nice to have that sort of thing, agreed.
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