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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-11 kl. 14:12, skrev 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.

Everything?

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

Yes, but my point was that the 2 GB limit on a single file in
a ZIP archive and the 1 TB file size limit in the VMS file
system are two different things.

You just wrote that "Zip can handle large files." and it was
not clear what you were refering to.