[Info-vax] NFS, indexed files and LDdriver

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-10-20, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 4:12 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>:
>> I take it that indexed files cannot reside on an NFS served disk ?
>
> Why not?
>
> For the host it is just a randomly accessed binary file.
>
> Mind you, I have not tried it.
>

Because you need some way of storing the file system metadata about
the file's attributes. In the past (IIRC), that's been in the form of
a second small file written by the VMS client onto the NFS served volume.

I don't know what the current practice is.

Simon.

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