[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-02-26, dodecahedron99 at gmail.com <dodecahedron99 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Other directions and statements by VSI about he future of VMS I would
> like to see, would be:
>
>
> New file system
> ----------------
> The notes state New File System
> * Eliminate 2TB volume size limit
> * Improved performance 
>
> Does this mean a totally new file system built from the ground up? or
> an enhanced file system supporting larger drives and a few tweaks?  
>
> Looks like the latter. I was hoping for something like lustre support,
> yeah, I know, that's a very big ask and somewhat a dream but hey, one
> can always dream. Maybe the likes of Cassandra can be tweaked to
> create a high performance file system? Eliminate 2Tb limit, replace it
> with what limit I wonder? I hope it's with something obscenely large
> so that a limit is never thought about again. Something supporting
> into the Yottabyte region will probably not be scoffed at in a few
> years as molecular storage starts to become more and more feasible

Hmm. Both Lustre and Cassandra are Java based and when the OpenJDK wiki
concentrates so heavily on licensing issues I want to run a mile.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK>

and that's before we consider the patch history or management overhead
of Java :-(

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