[Info-vax] File Systems

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com skrev den 2015-03-05 03:15:
> On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:01:50 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman
> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-04 11:45:00 +0000, Paul Sture said:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Lustre is GPL2, which makes its inclusion into a closed-source
>> OpenVMS configuration comparatively unlikely.
>>
>> ZFS, if VSI decides to license that from Oracle, might work.  ZFS and
>> various other choices would likely require some changes for
>> application compatibility and for clustering -- the caches would have
>> to be coordinated across cluster members -- and getting a wholly new
>> file system to operate in the XQP environment and with the existing
>> DCL commands and system services would involve some work.
>>
>> It's certainly conceivable that they'd extend fields in ODS-5.
>>
>> VSI might also decide to implement disk partitioning.
>>
>> The addressing change effects code throughout the VMS kernel and in
>> VSI and third-party application code.  Code that uses a longword
>> block count or a longword block address, such as device drivers,
>> disk-reporting tools and likely including SNMP, and potentially even
>> in foreign file systems which would want or need to address these
>> larger volumes.
>>
>> What VSI might decide here, we shall learn.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC
>
> This is a new file system. We started the work before VMS was sent to
> India. We intend to pick up where we left off.
>

Spiralog? :-)

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