[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[gah4]

On Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 7:44:36 AM UTC-7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-07-15 03:33, gah4 wrote: 

(snip)

> > 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. 

I suspect all could do it if you close, and reopen the file.

But the Unix ones do it without close/open, and then I found that
also worked on OS/2.