[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Dirk Munk]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dirk Munk  <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>> Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think we have to accept that the rest of the world selected
>>>> TCPIP for networking.
>>>
>>> And, that being the case, we need to have the same features that
>>> people
>>> have liked with DECNET (such as the remote save sets) available with > IP.
>>
>> YOU ALREADY HAVE THOSE FEATURES !!!!! IT IS CALLED DECNET OVER IP !!!!!
>>
>> Why on earth would any one try to invent something that is already
>> there, that is plain silly. No other OS could use those features.
>
> There's the problem right there.  "No other OS could use those features."
>
> Maybe I want to put my remote saveset on a Solaris machine.  Maybe I
> want to put it on a disk appliance.  We live in a world where we need
> to coexist.
> --scott
>
>

That is, or better will be possible.
You create a container file on any OS, and offer that container file 
over iSCSI to VMS. VMS will see a volume, you can format that volume 
with VMS, and use it to store data.
The host operating system will only see a very big file, it can not look 
inside the container disk for individual VMS files..