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.

The problem when copying from a VMS system to NTF is of course still there
unless you find a transfer method that correctly does this in both
directions.

I do hope some good protocols will some day evolve that actually let's me
copy files containing as much as possible with the two file systems
invlolved (like putting the extended attributes from HPFS in a non primary
stream on NTFS). Today I can't even transfer files reliably between
computers using the same filesystem without sometimes loosing information.
:-/

Regards
/Jonas