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- From: jbs@eddie.mit.edu (Jeff Siegal)
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 86 17:44:44 EST
- Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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- In article <6206@ut-sally.UUCP> guy@sub.com (Guy Harris)
- >[...] The file system was implemented by a process that ran in supervisor
- >mode and which received messages telling it to do things like read from or
- >write to a file. Other operating systems, like RSX-11 and VMS, did the same
- >thing. I believe the latest descendents of MERT, and VMS, have moved the
- >file system back into the kernel for performance reasons.
-
- Quite far off, actually (at least in the case of VMS). Current
- versions of VMS have replaced the disk filesystem ACP (which
- previously was a separate process) with the XQP, a separate instance
- of which exists in _each_process_ (the code is shared). This resulted
- in some significant performance _improvements_, and a filesystem which
- extends fairly easily and quite completely (including record/file
- locking, etc.) over different machines (using DEC's inter-system CI
- bus).
-
- Jeff Siegal
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 31
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