Jeff,
Marcus has suggested that the MVS backend storage is a giant memory mapped file. The data structure inside that file probably looked a lot like UFS.
Matt
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
There is no fileserver backend which stores data in a large file or directly to a block device, and there never has been. Such a thing would be possible, but it's not clear that it would be superior to the existing backends.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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