[Info-vax] RAID vs. MOUNT/BIND

[abrsvc]

On Nov 17, 1:12 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Bob Gezelter wrote:
> > LDDRIVER had a bug. There are few programs that need to deal with
> > things at that level. Put another way, before the problem LDDRIVER I
> > do not recall that class of issue being mentioned.
>
> Bound volume sets have not been in mainstream use for a very long time
> on VMS.  LD driver may have been the only bug, but I wouldn't bet my
> life on this.
>
> And I certaintly wouldn't even consider using it on 8.4 since the
> newbies haven't yet completed their training about .DIR files so I doubt
> they are up to snuff with the intricacies with multi volume devices and
> multi volume files.

RE:
>    Volume sets can spread files over two physical disks and make them
>    look like one, but cannot spread a single file over two disks.

If I recall correctly, this was a restriction with volume sets
initially.  This was subsequently removed.

Dan