[Info-vax] VMS defragmenters

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On 16 Apr, 17:01, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <gs50o5$6c... at online.de>, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
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> > It's also scary.  What happens if one runs it without having done the
> > NOMOVE stuff?
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>    VMS will make critical system files with NOMOVE automagically turned
>    on.  If you don't turn it off, VMS will be OK.
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>    Non-OS files almost never need this, but if you do have one then you
>    had better make sure you make it NOMOVE before you run a defragger.

I wouldn't disagree with you were it not for the fact that HP ask you
specifically in the release notes and during the installation to run
the SETFILENOMOVE.COM command procedure and whether or not you have
run it.  I take this to mean that VMS Engineering mean you to run it
to make sure that files are set nomove where they need to be.
The command procedure dates back to 1991 and the last update in the
version I've got to hand was from Hoff in 2003 for Integrity.

Steve