[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-08-23 05:48, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 10:19:59 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>> What good would be a 2 GB record, when contemporary disk drives might be 100 MB,
>> or less?
> 
> ZFS supports filesystems of 2^128 bytes, well beyond what was possible when it was designed, or even today. It is a lot newer than RMS and thus has more experience with "can't scale" issues.
> 
> OTOH, some things in VMS show a small-system-memory mindset. I don't know If that's the reason for the 32KB limit or if it was inherited from the mostly-compatibility-mode environment of early VMS utilities.

It's most likely inherited from the PDP-11, where RMS also exists...

   Johnny