[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Dave Froble]

On 5/15/2019 8:05 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <qbenjq$f8$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> On 5/14/2019 9:56 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>> In article <qbco24$r22$2 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Not that I'm an expert on VMS clusters, but it has been my impression
>>>> that the OS did all the work.  But what do I know?
>>>
>>>      The file system is very much part of the OS.  If it's going to work
>>>      in VMSclusters, it must support VMSclusters.
>>>
>>
>> Why would any filesystem not support VMS clusters?
>>
>> A file system is the structure on disk, and the code to access and
>> support it.  If any node has access to the device, then it has access.
>> What more is needed?
>
> Synchronized coordinated access!
>

That's actually more than just being able to access a disk.  However, 
the DLM is already there, it just needs to be used.

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