[Info-vax] MOUNT and filesystems, was: Re: RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-26 12:43:28 +0000, Michael Moroney said:

> File system support (other than relatively trivial transfer programs) 
> in  VMS need some knowledge by MOUNT for it to even know what to do 
> about a foreign format.  For the theoretical FAT32 filesystem, you'd 
> need a /FAT32 paramater to tell MOUNT this is a FAT32 filesystem, for 
> it to validate the filesystem and launch an ACP to deal with the file 
> system.

Wouldn't be the first time that dynamically-activated extensions or 
callouts were used within OpenVMS or layered products, or ACPs for that 
matter, and MOUNT does still has a largely-now-runt ACP-related 
qualifier.

(But this also leads to discussions around code signing and related, 
though those areas of security haven't become visible to most OpenVMS 
users.  Yet.)


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