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- From: leichter@lrw.com (JERRY LEICHTER)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: re: Problem with ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR
- Message-ID: <9207220151.AA13631@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 01:41:15 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Im running V5.3-1 and for a while now when I run ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR I
- get the message:
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- %VERIFY-E-SORTERROR, error sorting multiply allocated block list
- -RMS-E-WLCK, device currently write locked
-
- I said something to DEC as an aside but didn't really get an answer.
- Is this a problem? Any ideas how to fix or why it exists?
-
- This is an old, known bug. What happens is that VERIFY uses SORT to sort
- its multiply allocated block list, and SORT in turn tries to open work
- files on SYS$SCRATCH. If SYS$SCRATCH points to the disk being verified,
- then VERIFY will have write locked it.
-
- The easiest solution is to point SYS$SCRATCH to some other disk. If you
- only have one disk, just let VERIFY continue - it won't do as complete a
- job, but it's the best you can do. (I think, but am not certain, that it
- will still catch all multiply-allocated blocks; it's just that it will tell
- you about them multiple times.)
-
- I think this was fixed in VMS V5.4-something (by using an in-core sort).
-
- -- Jerry
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