[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[David Goodwin]

In article <v1d7p6$38li0$1 at dont-email.me>, devzero at nospam.com says...
> 
> On 5/4/24 07:57, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> > On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 02:11 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> >>> Oracle gets money that would otherwise likely go to Red Hat ...
> >>
> >> Interesting that they won?t offer their own ZFS next-generation
> >> filesystem product with it, preferring to bundle btrfs instead. Vote
> >> of confidence in your own product over rivals, much?
> > 
> > My experience with btrfs was awful. It's fortunate I only tested it and
> > took backups, and it kept losing data. Turned to ZFS and it has been
> > rock solid. Ten years.
> 
> Yes, ZFS here since the very early versions of Solaris 10. Absolutely
> rock solid and has never lost any data here, nor had a situation
> that was not recoverable. Why use anything else ?.
> 
> FreeBSD was the only alternative os to offer their own clean room
> zfs many years ago, but they moved to OpenZFS. Again, rock solid
> and would not choose any other fs, other than for quick hacks, or
> testing.
> 
> Back on topic, who remembers the dec advfs  for Tru64 ?. Never
> actually used it, but what were it's advantages / usp ?...

Late last year I had a go at building GCC 4.7.4 for Tru64 5.1B on my 
trusty AlphaServer 800 (notes here for anyone interested in doing it: 
https://www.zx.net.nz/vc/dunix/gcc.shtml)

During this process I ran out of disk and ended up having to slot 
another drive in the machine which led me to interacting with the AdvFS 
management tools. And it turns out its a pretty impressive filesystem 
for its age. Its got the whole storage pools thing that ZFS does which 
is pretty nice.

No COW or Checksumming that I can see though, but despite that it seems 
to be a more capable filesystem than whats normally been used on linux 
for the past decade or two. Its a shame HP never released their Linux 
port of it.