[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-05-13, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> On 5/13/19 5:57 AM, IanD wrote:
>> 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
>
> ZFS doesn't stop bit rot on disks.  What ZFS does is to detect the bit 
> rot and correct it, if it's detected early enough.  To this end, it's 
> suggested to do a "scrub" of the ZFS pool periodically to validate 
> checksums (of metadata and data).
>
> ZFS includes redundancy (multiple type of RAID), snapshots, send & 
> receive support, and many, Many, MANY other features.
>

There's a reason (multiple reasons actually) why so many operating
systems now support ZFS.

Unfortunately, VMS isn't likely to be one of them, given the lack
of support in VMS for modular plugin filesystems. That means adding
ZFS to VMS would be a major job.

Simon.

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