[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:30:13 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
wrote:

> In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-KUhwpuvoZjLb at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
> 	"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:22:48 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Note the percentage of fragmentation.  And, no, there are no de-frag
> >> programs for BSD Unix.  The question does come up from a windows weenie
> >> periodically in the BSD Newsgroups.
> > 
> > Remind me when DEC finally provided a defragmenter for VMS...! :-)
> 
> Don't know that they do.  Does the VMS filesystem fragment enough that
> it is necessary?

Hollow laugh. Oh yes. Not to mention the dreaded (old) INDEXF.SYS 
filling up.

>  I have heard of people basicly "unloading" all of the
> VMS files to tape and reloading them to rmeove fragmentation, but I
> don't know that it is ever really necessary.

It was more necessary on VMS than on any other system I've come into 
contact with, mainly due to the fact that fragmentation ate file headers
and thus cost real disk space.

But I could live with it because it was so reliable...
-- 
Bob Eager