[Info-vax] Large mailboxes - RMS Indexed file internal design

[Dave Froble]

On 12/6/2020 12:14 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>
>> This also given we're (hopefully) migrating from the longword logical
>> block addresses (2 TiB limit) to longer will be disruptive, and given
>> we're using other databases for many apps.
>> Maybe once we're past 2 TiB and headed for exabyte-scale volumes, RMS
>> indexed updates will be interesting.
>
> You'll be happy to know that VMS addressing drives larger than 2TB has already
> been done (largely by myself) and will be in V9.x, and is in a V8.x version
> which may or may not see the light of day.  This will not help with Files-11
> since ODS-2/5 also has a 2TB limit and really can't be updated. To use the
> changes will require a new file system.
>

There are users who do not, and never will need storage greater than 2TB.

Will there be any advantages in the new file system(s) other than size 
of storage?  Perhaps performance?  Or will users of say ODS2 still have 
similar performance?

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