[Info-vax] VMS Enhancement request: setfilenomove.com

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Fri Jul 12 18:43:35 EDT 2019


On 2019-07-11 02:03:52 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> Andy Goldstein and I had a short discussion today about the list of 
> files that setfilenomove.com attempts to work on.  It's an incomplete 
> list of execlets and device drivers, and we're not sure why all those 
> files are in there to begin with.

Obviously and IIRC, it was for the files that were (once) opened via 
PFS and LBN; that didn't have an XQP I/O channel open. Which meant a 
defragger wouldn't detect an open I/O channel, and might then move the 
file.


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