Jonas Eckerman wrote:
The VMS filesystem is really amazing for commercial database
applications, and it's really a shame to see it going away in favor of
lowest common denominator heirarchical filesystems like the 4.2 and NT
filesystems.


NTFS supports multiple datastreams in one file, so to store a VMS file on
NTFS you should be able to store that extra data in one of the non primary
data streams.

Given the DEC/VMS origins of the original NT development team, one can
understand this.


For those who aren't familiar with it, I recommend Hans Reiser's
whitepapers. Interesting stuff, even if you don't intend to use
reiserfs http://www.namesys.com/