[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Bob Koehler]

In article <qbetnh$7kv$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2019-05-14, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
>> In article <qbebro$6ji$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>> 
>>> Yes, but those are all filesystem driver issues. I don't see what is
>>> required in the on-disk structure itself to support VMS style clustering.
>>
>>    These are filesystem internals issues.  Not at the device driver
>>    level, but at the ACP or XQP level.
>>
> 
> I said nothing about device drivers.
> 
> I talked about filesystem drivers.
> 
> The filesystem specific code in the XQP would be implemented as
> a filesystem driver in a modular system (which is exactly what
> happens on Linux).
> 
> If you look at how Linux works, you will see that what is a monolithic
> mass of code on VMS, which cannot be changed or added to by an end-user,
> is actually a nicely modular and layered architecture on Linux.

   OK, but it still has to inlude code to call the DLM.