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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-29 16:07, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <nl0k69$nov$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2016-06-29 15:45, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <nl0gec$fke$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>>> It is not the size of the file on the disk. Simple as that.
>>>
>>> You're too thick.
>>
>> Calling an apple a pear won't make it so.
>>
>> What you try to talk about is the size of your data on the disk, which
>> is not the same as the size of the file on the disk.
>> And we have already established that figuring out the size of your data
>> on the disk is also not doable in VMS.
>>
>> You can call ma any number of names, if that makes you happier. But at
>> the end of the day, nothing have changed. And starting to call names is
>> really not much of a technical argument.
>
> With that argument, you can't get it on *ix either. ;)

Nonsense. In Unix, stat() gives me the exact same number as the number 
of times I can call fgetc() to read one character. Try once more, and it 
fails. Totally consistent.

And I can also get the number of disk blocks allocated to a file in 
Unix, if I am interested in that, which will tell me how many bytes are 
used on the disk for the file.

	Johnny