[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

Michael Moroney moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
Mon May 13 14:36:18 EDT 2019


Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

>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.

If I recall, A mentioned that ZFS and other file systems lacked the cluster support
needed for clusterwide operation that VMS needs, and would require mega rototilling 
to add it. I don't know the details.



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