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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <o04ccd$j9e$2 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> It is one way. And the way that creates backups with metadata
> to init a new volume. I said nothing about what is the right way,
> just saying that with the new file system, you can have volumes
> larger than can be stored in one backup save set file.

Right, but maybe backup isn't the best way for anything.  Yes, 
initialization information is important, but one could easily do a SHOW 
DEVICE/FULL and put this in a file to be included in the zip archive, 
then initialize by hand.  In many cases, /noinit is wanted anyway.

> Wasn't that an old 2 GB limit in older ZIP's ?

Very old.