[Info-vax] Desirable features for VMS

[kludge at panix.com]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 1/25/2024 10:31 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> Some sort of userspace pluggable filesystem support.
>> FUSE, 9P + a mount driver, whatever.
>
>That would also be nice.
>
>But how many potential VMS users will consider "userspace
>pluggable filesystem support" important in decision process?

On production systems, I don't think it's all that useful for users to
be able to mount and dismount filesystems, or to install their own new
filesystem drivers of their own design.

I -do- think that there is some security benefit in having the filesystem
support in user space, but I also think the performance penalty is usually
not worth it.

What -would- be useful would be the ability to plug new filesystems easily
into the kernel, along with ntfs and various fat drivers supplied as needed.
Do I need to be able to do this dynamically from user space?  Not really.
--scott