[Info-vax] FREESPADRIFT

[Michael Moroney]

lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes:

>On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 1:21:50 AM UTC+12, Bob Koehler wrote:

>>    It is normally cached, with more blocks marked on the disk as in use than
>>    are actually in use, so allocation doesn't need to update the on-disk
>>    value.  During proper dismount, the value on the disk is corrected.
>>    Improper dismount will leave it stale.

>No journalling, then?

>This from the company that invented Spiralog...

Don't forget that Spiralog was newer than ODS-5/ODS-2.  And Spiralog was
to be a different file system for VMS (not a mod to ODS-5) but was 
cancelled.