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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-13 kl. 19:28, skrev David Froble:
> Michael Moroney wrote:
>> IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm still curious about the new file system
>>
>>> What else can be let loose about it?
>>
>>> - Will existing RMS work with it?
>>
>> The idea is that existing RMS will work with it.  The new file system will
>> have increased performance, and will work on disks larger than 2TB.
>
> I guess my response to this is, what is meant by the word "performance"?
>

A test with file deletes from a "large" directory was mentioned. That
had run with "twice the speed". No actual figures or other background.
I didn't find *that* specific part of the presentation as particularly
professional.

> Larger disks may be considered performance, but, for me, it would be work
> per unit of time.  While there may be room for improvement, software isn't
> going to cause a disk to turn and / or transfer quicker.

Areas that can be improved are of course related to operations that are
specific to the VMS file system as such. Nothing will make the actual
disk hardware to become faster, of course.


> With a
> significant cache, the disk speeds aren't nearly as much of an issue any more.