[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-27, Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Having stated this, we all know a new log based file system (VAFS) is
> cooking in the VSI backrooms now. One likely performance benefit is that
> it will also use a write behind cache strategy that is similar to the
> deferred write strategy that *nix/Windows platforms use today.
>

If it does deferred write, then I hope it can bloody well be turned off. :-(

The last thing I want for VMS is for a Cassandra type situation
where you can lose up to 10 seconds of data if a disaster happens,
especially if some acknowledgement or data has been sent to a remote
system during those 10 seconds.

Simon.

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