That would make CMS a unique system among operating systems. Its instantaneous state will survive a power drop. And if the programmer comes back a year later, is he (no she would be) expecting the file he queried still to be there?
Can we keep rubbish off this list, please? "If a programmer queries the state of a file, it's reasonable that the result of that query will be used subsequently. No process in another workunit, even from another VM, should be allowed to alter that state in the interim."
