[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-11-11, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Simon Clubley
>> via Info-vax
>> 
>> Some reading for you Kerry:
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFS2
>> 
>
> If you had read one of my recent posts regarding this topic, you would have
> seen where I stated "shared disk (OpenVMS, Linux GFS2 and z/OS)"
>

Yes, I saw those. You conveniently missed that little bit out when trying
to say shared disks were a unique selling point for VMS. :-)

> But I stated well established .. this fully supported GFS2 technology was
> only integrated into RHEL since V5.3. (2010 timeframe). Also, GFS2 is not
> currently widely used in the Linux world. 
>

Percentage wise or absolute numbers ?

On an absolute numbers basis, I wonder how many use GFS2 compared to VMS
shared disks ?

BTW, GFS2 was something VSI was actively looking at for the new filesystem.

Simon.

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