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- From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Volume Sets
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.111743.247@rlgsc.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 11:17:42 EST
- References: <9211091501.AA26053@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY
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- In article <9211091501.AA26053@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SYSTEM_JM@UNODE2.NSWC.NAVY.MIL ("SYSTEM SUPPORT") writes:
- > ....
- > I just wanted the original poster to realize that new files and directory
- > structures get created across the entire volume set. It's NOT as though one
- > disk will fill up with data before moving on to the next disk. Therefore,
- > you'll have to backup the entire set if you lose a disk drive.
- > ....
- >
- > *******************************************************************************
- > ** Jim Matthews **
- > ** Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division **
- > ** Code N23A **
- > ** Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000 **
- > ** Internet: system_jm@unode2.nswc.navy.mil **
- > *******************************************************************************
- --
- Jim,
-
- Good points in your post. A note for the people who are less than
- intimately familiar with Volume Sets.
-
- A given file will tend to be allocated on a particular volume.
- The XQP (and its predecessors) try to avoid allocating a single
- file across multiple volumes in the volume set (among other
- reasons, each jump in volumes will require an extension file
- header to be allocated, the retreival pointers do not have any
- provision for Relative Volume Number specification).
-
- Additionally, space for new files will be allocated on the volume
- set member which has the most free space available at the time
- that the file is created, which, to some extent, balances the IO
- load across the volume set.
-
- Finally, a note. It is indeed possible, with fairly little work,
- to force files onto specific members of the volume set.
-
- I hope that the above is clear. If I have been unclear, please
- feel free to drop me an Email or give me a call.
-
- - Bob
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