CMS filesystem
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The CMS minidisk filesystem is the original filesystem of the IBM mainframe z/VM operating system (previously known as VM/CMS). | The CMS minidisk filesystem is the original filesystem of the IBM mainframe z/VM operating system (previously known as VM/CMS). | ||
| − | It has no concept of subdirectories, all files being stored in the root directory. However, it was normal to give each user their own virtual disk, to keep each user’s files separate. Users could share disks with each other. Each disk was mounted using a drive letter A-Z, with drive A normally being each user’s own disk. Hexadecimal IO addresses were used to identify disks in a user-independent manner. | + | It has no concept of subdirectories, all files being stored in the root directory. However, it was normal to give each user their own virtual disk, to keep each user’s files separate. Users could share disks with each other. Each disk was mounted using a drive letter A-Z, with drive A normally being each user’s own primary disk. Hexadecimal IO addresses were used to identify disks in a user-independent manner. |
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| + | Files were given maximum 8 character names with a maximum 8 character extension (called a "filetype"). A space rather than a dot was used to separate the name and extension. | ||
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Revision as of 12:05, 2 January 2021
The CMS minidisk filesystem is the original filesystem of the IBM mainframe z/VM operating system (previously known as VM/CMS).
It has no concept of subdirectories, all files being stored in the root directory. However, it was normal to give each user their own virtual disk, to keep each user’s files separate. Users could share disks with each other. Each disk was mounted using a drive letter A-Z, with drive A normally being each user’s own primary disk. Hexadecimal IO addresses were used to identify disks in a user-independent manner.
Files were given maximum 8 character names with a maximum 8 character extension (called a "filetype"). A space rather than a dot was used to separate the name and extension.
