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In article <BzKGKB.2Bp@pix.com>, stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) writes:
> The we need a way for user level code to tell the OS what file info is
> important to cache, and what isn't.  Then you can be almost as efficent
> as VMS/RMS (you will have extra context switch overhead for the extra
> syscalls), but you will still be able to allow any user to create new
> filetypes.
> -- 
>            stripes@pix.com              "Security for Unix is like
>       Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Multitasking for MS-DOS"
>       "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
> We all agree on the necessity of compromise.  We just can't agree on
> when it's necessary to compromise.       - Larry Wall
-- 
Josh,
 
Important point that you bring up tangentially in your post. 
While VMS does provide RMS as an operating system service, there 
is nothing which prevents you from "folling your own" type of 
file structure. However, every program which wants to read from 
your special file structure will have to be intimately familiar 
with it. Programs which use RMS can process files which were 
created using RMS with no problems.
 
A misnote about the HSC which appeared in this thread. The HSC 
does not really know anything about the content of the disk 
files. However, RMS will do things inside of the CPU, such as 
maintain index caches on a system wide basis, which are a 
signifigant performance improvement. One problem with rolling 
yourself is that, invariably, the management and monitoring tools 
and utilities are bare-bones.
 
- Bob
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