[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-05-13, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
> The video was with the watch if nothing more than to get there idea that they intend to address a number of the existing performance issues and volume size limitations on VMS
>
> Not a lot of in-depth detail though. Moving from 32 bit to 64 bi I think
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> ZFS is a 128 bit file system from what I read and has aspects to stop long term bit rot not evident in many file systems
>

It's also a snapshot capable filesystem (along with other features).

The Wikipedia article looks like a good writeup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

> It's quite an eye opener what some existing file systems already out there supports as far as limitations are concerned
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

VMS has a lot of catching up to do in a number of areas.

Simon.

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