From: khamer@news (Kenneth Hamer,,,) Subject: Re: ********* Let's ! ***************** Date: 17 May 1993 14:56:15 -0700
From article <16BD186C2.KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>, by KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com:
> We use a similar system on our main frames known as HSM or Hierchial
> Storage Manager. From my understanding of it, if a dataset (i.e. file)
> goes unused for a certain amount of time it is archived to dasd, after
> an even longer amount of time, if it is still unused it goes to tape.
> When a user wants to use this dataset HSM goes out and retrieves the
> dataset and restores it. If there is insufficient space however, space does
> need to be made manually. It seems to be a pretty efficient system. I have
> wondered what it would be like to implement it on a PC. I maybe wrong
> but I do think there would be some people who would use it.
I don't know about the tape part of that, since tapes still seem to be
fairly uncommon on linux boxes, but a daemon that automatically gzips
files that are unused after a certain time and then restores them on
demand (sort of like a smarter tcx that works on all files) would be warmly
recieved by me, at least.
-Ken
-- ..............................................................................-Kenneth Hamer khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu