Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3719 news.software.b:7701 comp.unix.aix:4999 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!pangea.Stanford.EDU!karish From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news Summary: Add a vfs Message-ID: <1991May9.033556.29734@morrow.stanford.edu> Date: 9 May 91 03:35:56 GMT Article-I.D.: morrow.1991May9.033556.29734 References: <1991May07.160042.28634@turnkey.tcc.com> Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service) Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences Lines: 20 In article <1991May07.160042.28634@turnkey.tcc.com> jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes: >One possibility struck me, since AIX Version 3 is a 'vnoded' filesystem >(which, alas, AIX/370 isn't) I wouldn't think it would be that hard to >provide a SysV 1K or FFS filesystem as an option. Has anyone out there in >6000 support thought about or considered this?? If a widely-supported filesystem architecture were supported IBM would also be adding value of another sort to their machines. In particular, having a FFS option available might make it possible to use Sun or DEC SCSI disks when their hosts are out off commission. It would probably be easier for IBM to support DEC and/or Sun filesystems than it would be for the others to support IBM's, so there'd be a net advantage in value added to IBM. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com (415) 323-9000 karish@forel.stanford.edu