[Info-vax] VMS - The new file system. What do we know about it?...

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Fri Nov 11 07:33:48 EST 2016


On 2016-11-11 13:11, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2016-11-11 kl. 14:03, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
>> In article <o041pj$j9e$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>> Den 2016-11-11 kl. 06:50, skrev IanD:
>>>> - Will existing RMS work with it?
>>>
>>> Yes, the goal is that RMS will work as it is. No RMS re-work
>>> planned as I understand (in regard to the new file system).
>>>
>>> The structures that goes from 32 to 64 bits are those that
>>> are below RMS, so to speak. Something was mentioned as an
>>> example of a limit that will not change due to this, but I
>>> do not remember what it was. Hm, maybe it was the maximum
>>> size of any single individual file? Yes, I think it was...
>>> 1 TB it is, right?
>>
>> The RFA will have to change if files are to be able to take advantage
>> of larger storage space this new file system will open up.
>>
>
> That is, to have larger individual files than today, right?
> You can still have more files than today for a larger total
> storage space.

Correct.

The RFA is just about addressing within one file.

	Johnny





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