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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-26, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-06-26 08:26:35 +0000, Paul Sture said:
>
>> I think that what Hoff and Simon are complaining about is that the 
>> programming interface to MOUNT is inflexible and undocumented.
>
> Ayup, at least for me.  And volume management is more than a little 
> limited in general, too.
>

And for me as well. MOUNT should be little more than a CLI wrapper
around a $MOUNT system service and that $MOUNT system service should
provide generic mount services only and should ask filesystem specific
drivers/modules about anything that's filesystem specific.

BTW, all this (and a lot more) would be required as a pre-requisite
to properly supporting end-user written filesystem drivers in VMS.

Simon.

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