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

[Hans Bachner]

David Froble schrieb am 13.11.2016 um 19:28:
> 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"?
>
> 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.
> With a significant cache, the disk speeds aren't nearly as much of an
> issue any more.

Andy Goldstein demoed creation and deletion of a large number of files. 
I don't have the numbers at hand, but it was like create a file/write a 
record/close the file and do this 1000 or 5000 times was 3 to 4 times 
faster than on ODS-5.

Especially with increasing volume sizes this seems definitely good news 
to me.

Hans.