[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-07-15 03:33, gah4 wrote:
> On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 4:36:41 PM UTC-7, Chris Townley wrote:
> 
> (snip, I wrote)
> 
>>> Reminds me of, years ago, porting gnu-utils to OS/2 and finding that
>>> tail -f works. I don't know if tail -f is supposed to work on VMS, though.
> 
> tail -f reads the end of a file, then waits and checks to see if it got bigger.
> That is, if the EOF went away.
> 
> Not all file system, I suspect, can do that.

I have a hard time imagining any file system that could not. Such a file 
system would then also not be able to append to an existing file.

   Johnny