can you guess? wrote: >> can you run a database on RMS? >> > > As well as you could on must Unix file systems. And you've been able to do > so for almost three decades now (whereas features like asynchronous and > direct I/O are relative newcomers in the Unix environment). >
Funny, I remember trying to help customers move their applications from TOPS-20 to VMS, back in the early 1980s, and finding that the VMS I/O capabilities were really badly lacking. RMS was an abomination -- nothing but trouble, and another layer to keep you away from your data. Of course, TOPS-20 isn't Unix; it's one of the things the original Unix developers couldn't afford, so they had to try to write something that would work for them and would run on hardware they *could* afford (the other one was Multics of course). -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
