[Info-vax] RAID vs. MOUNT/BIND

[onedbguru]

On Nov 18, 8:41 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <4ce3f1a3$0$23754$14726... at news.sunsite.dk>, "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Om... at BlueBubble.UK.Com> writes:
>
> > On 17/11/2010 13:19, Bob Koehler wrote:
> >> [...snip...]
> >>     Volume sets can spread files over two physical disks and make them
> >>     look like one, but cannot spread a single file over two disks.  So if
> >>     there is enough space on the pair for a new large file, but not on
> >>     either disk, it won't fit.
>
> > That's simply not true - of course you can have a single, large file
> > split over the whole bound volume.
>
>   A change since the last time I saw them used?  ca. VMS 3.x.

I had a customer with an RMS indexed file that was > 40GB using RA90
(1.2GB),RA72(1.0GB) type of disks  in bound volume sets on an 8000-
class system (maybe an 8600???)