[Info-vax] File Systems

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> Hopefully VSI is aimed at something equal to and preferably variously 
> better than ZFS, with native UTF-8, and not just a compatible descendent 
> of ODS-5 here.  But then VSI has a very full project list, too.

Ok, did some homework.  ( I hate it when you assign me homework )

For a long time I "knew what I thought I needed to know, and didn't want 
to be annoyed with spurious stuff".

Anyway I read some about ZFS.  Interesting.  It sure seems much more 
robust with regard to data protection and recovery than my much loved 
ODS-2.  Now I have more to think about.  (I hate when that happens)

But there is this lingering distrust of "magic".  Work is work, and the 
more that needs to be done, all else being equal, there is usually only 
so many work units available and if used for overhead, less is available 
for what you want to do.

Actually, I found myself getting a bit excited.  The little bit I read 
indicates that if anything like this is implemented, some of the current 
worries will become much less.

So, Ok, we still don't know what VSI is considering.  But if it's 
something with the ZFS concepts as a starting point, perhaps we have 
more than VMS on x86 to look forward to.