[Info-vax] FREESPADRIFT

[Michael Moroney]

lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes:

>On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 6:24:46 AM UTC+12, Michael Moroney wrote:

>> 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.

>Linux was able to add journalling to an existing filesystem (turning 
>ext2 into ext3). VMS never did the same?

VMS Engineering was working on a new file system when HP canned VMS in the
US, including that project.  I don't know the details.  VSI is likely to
come up with something to supersede ODS-5.