[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 8:56:38 PM UTC+12, Paul Sture wrote:

> Rather useful when determining how much space is required for a
> Time Machine Backup, I imagine.

Time Machine plays fast and loose with your filesystem integrity (multiple hard links to directories), and you pay the price in reliability <http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1252811>.

> cf VMS only storing the block sizes of files rather than the number of
> bytes; this can be problematic for utilities ported from a system which
> has an easy/cheap way to supply the exact size in bytes.

This was the example Linus Torvalds gave of why he hated VMS...