[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-05-15, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> wrote:
> On 5/15/2019 7:22 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>>
>>> Someone has actually written an ODS-2 filesystem driver for Linux
>>> that allows you to read ODS-2 volumes on Linux. There's no way a
>>> third-party person could write an ext2 filesystem driver which you
>>> could then insert into VMS and have the rest of VMS work with it.
>> 
>> Where is this?  I would be very interested in it, even if it just uses
>> FUSE instead of being a real native filesystem.
>> --scott
>
> http://www.vms2linux.de/index.html

That looks a lot more up to date than the one I have just posted
a link to. Please ignore the link I have just posted.

There are both user-mode readers and a filesystem driver on the
above website that John has posted a link to.

David, take a look at this page:

http://www.vms2linux.de/ods5fs-overview.html

That's how easy it is for a third-party user to implement a new
filesystem under Linux. There's no way you could implement ext2
(one of the native Linux filesystems) on VMS like this.

Simon.

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