How to transfer data FAST?

Antonio> If you try hard enough, you can build a hybrid system where Antonio> the ODS-2 and ISO9660 sides have different trees but share Antonio> the same data (useful for stream-LF and binary files). Cool idea. I didn't do that -- didn't think of it, and also because I didn't know enough 9660 then. Antonio> I presume RSTS is ODS-1, which IIRC is ODS-2 but without a Antonio> few of the bells and whistles so the structure is quite Antonio> close to ODS-2. I would expect that you could interleave Antonio> ODS-1 and ISO9660 fairly easily. No, RSTS is RDS-1; it's a file structure all its own, totally unrelated to any other PDP-11 OS. (It's a distant relative of the TSS-8 file system, though.) In particular, the naming aspects (directory) and file block to disk block mapping aspects (file header in ODS, inode in Unix) are combined in the RSTS directory structure, unfortunately. So there is no rename across directories and neither softlinks nor hardlinks. It's all nicely documented in the RSTS internals manuals, and you can also read all about it in the RSTSFLX sources. paul