[Info-vax] File Systems

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-03-06, clairgrant71 at gmail.com <clairgrant71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 12:30:07 PM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It is not spiralog but draws upon some things (good and bad) from that
> project and, of course, many years of seeing where the XQP is weak.

Thanks Clair.  I am looking forward to seeing what goodies it brings.

And pushing it to see where/how/if it breaks, of course :-)

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