[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

[Rob Brown]

On Thu, 26 May 2011 at 10:21 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On 2011-05-26 06.45, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article<irkkki$dc8$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny 
>> Billquist<bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> 
>>> To create a file system on a disk, you need to mount the disk 
>>> first (but telling VMS that there is no file system to try to 
>>> understand).
>> 
>> You initialize before you mount.  I've never tried to initialize a 
>> volume that was mounted foreign, and I don't think it works.
>
> My memory might have a bit error then, but for RSX, the procedure 
> is: you mount the disk foreign, and no share. Then you initialize 
> it, then dismount, and remount as a structured device.

You are both right.  This is a difference between VMS and 
RSX-11M-Plus.

In VMS, as Bob says, you must initialize before you can mount.

In M-Plus, as Johnny says, you must mount foreign/noshare and then 
initialize.

In the days of M V4.1 / M+ V2.1, the documentation said:
   in M+ the disk has to be mounted foreign
   in M the disk has to be unmounted or mounted foreign

I don't know what the requirement is for current version of M.

FWIW


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