Download or read book VMS File System Internals written by Kirby McCoy and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1990 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important addition to your VAX/VMS library. For software specialists, system programmers, applications designers, and other computer professionals, here is a welcome in-depth study of the VMS file system, Version 5.2. You'll find it helpful in understanding the data structures, algorithms, interfaces to, and basic synchronization mechanisms of the VMS file system - that part of the operating system responsible for storing and managing files and information in memory and in secondary storage. The book is also fascinating as a case study of the VMS implementation of a file system.