[Info-vax] 8.4 freespace-drift problem?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-05-22 18:28:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> David Froble skrev den 2015-05-22 04:40:
>>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> Twice since the upgrade I've noticed that the free space was off by about
>>>> 4 GB.  (After the upgrade I went from 4-GB to 9-GB disks, which gave me 5
>>>> GB free instead of 1.  I was really surprised when I saw just 1 GB
>>>> free.)  ANA/DISK/REPAIR fixes it, but it appeared again a day later.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>>>
>>>> In the last 20 years or so I have never seen this much freespace drift on
>>>> my hobbyist systems.
>>>>
>>>> The problem (at least so far) has been only on the system disk with 8.4.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why am I so happy that I'm still running V8.3 ????
>>
>> You have no reason to be happy. Upgrade. 8.4 is "better".
>>
>> Phillips issues as desribed above has of course nothing
>> with 8.4 as such to do.
>>
>>
>
> You have actual facts to back up this statement?  Specifics?

No. But I'm quite sure I'm right anyway... :-)

VMS 8.4 has been released for general use for 5 years now.
I would guess that the majority of bugs or whatever has been
sorted out by now. I would also guess that it is the upgrade
as such, not that it was to 8.4 specificaly, that is causing the
issues. Combined with cluster, shadowing , disk swaps and so on.

Hoff idea of taking a scratch disk and making a clean single
node 8.4 installation, just to check the hardware, would
be a good next step here.







My point is that the issues that Phillip is seeing right
now are not something one should use as an input in
the decission to run 8.4 or not.

OK, if you are one of the few using DECW, you might wait and
see, but let me guess that it is not anything relating to
any other envorment then Phillips anyway.