[Info-vax] VMS defragmenters

IanMiller gxys at uk2.net
Tue Apr 14 16:28:36 EDT 2009


On 14 Apr, 20:39, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> This is worth its own topic.
>
> There was a fragmentation analyser on a decus tape last millenia.
>
> And there has been COPY/CONTIGUOUS for many eons which allowed
> individual files to be defragmented.
>
> But with more recent VMS versions, wasn't there a "built-in"
> defragmenter ? If not, what is the SET FILE/MOVE/NOMOVE used for ?


There is a move file operations added to the file system for use by
defragmenters.

Analyzing - use DFU, or use can use DFO for analyzing for free or
other sellers of these things also supply reporting programs.



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