[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-09, clairgrant71 at gmail.com <clairgrant71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks; I hadn't fully realised there was a distinct two stage
>> implementation approach with the new file system.
>> 
>
> It is not really a logical separation; it's more a matter of the timing
> of our getting the work done. The 64bLBN work is a big deal - many
> device driver changes, the I/O exec, fighting with various 32b/64b 
> arithmetic conversions, etc. Plus, we decided to clean up some ancient
> notions about disk geometry that no loner apply. When this all gets
> done then the file system can verify that it handles the larger block
> numbers correctly. All the rest of the basic file system work is happening
> in parallel with the 64bLBN work.
>
> That's a lot of detail but I did not want to leave a wrong impression about
> "in two stages". 

I understand now; thanks for having taken the time to explain.

Simon.

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