Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!chinet!dag
From: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: OS features
Message-ID: <2012@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 02:56:28 GMT
References: <561@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> <3228@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <21545@rebel.UUCP> <477@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
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In article <477@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
	ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Concerning multiple-extent (dynamically allocated) contiguous files:
>
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>(2) Doesn't VMS provide a feature like this?

Yes, and so does RMS on RSX-11.  Some DEC operating systems also have
an attribute for "Conditionally contiguous", which will endevor to keep the
file contiguous, but when there is no space available reverts to
non-contiguous.

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