[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> Solaris has somthing of the sort.  I've occasionally got "File is temporarily 
> unavailable."
> Fifteen seconds later it opens.
>
> IBM is just behind the curve.

isn't that part of what ADSM/TSM is suppose to do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager#Data_Sources

Other data injectors include policy-based hierarchical storage
management (HSM) components for AIX, Linux and Windows. These allow
migration of data from production disk into one or more of the TSM
storage hierarchies while maintaining transparent access to that data by
the use of DMAPI or NTFS reparse points.

... snip ...

I had originally done the implementation in the late 70s for
internal datacenters as CMSBACK ... some old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
and posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup

it went thru a number of internal releases before being enhanced for
supporting distributed computing (workstations, unix PCs, etc) and
released to customers as workstation data save (WDSF).

It was then picked up by AdStar 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adstar

becoming ADSM, i.e. IBM was being re-orged into the 13 baby blues in
preparation for breaking up the company, the disk division was one of
the business units that was furthest along. I've frequently mentioned
that the disk division in the late 80s had been claiming that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division ... becuase of it constantly vetoing disk division
advanced support for real distributed computing (communicatio group
trying to preserve the communication dumb termainal paradigm and install
base) ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal

trivia: we did some distributed computing & open system projects with
the adstar VP of software, who also funded the original project
supporting POSIX on MVS.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idan400/cpn2co70.htm

but were almost constantly at war with the communication group.

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virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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