[Info-vax] make vs. MMS

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 15:25:42 EDT 2022


> More than 39 characters (ODS-2).

   It's your life, but perhaps you should consider climbing out of the
stone age.

> Every decision to do something, i.e. set up an ODS-5 disk, requires an
> assessment of whether it is worth the trouble.

   That assessment should include the trouble involved in _not_ doing
it.

   Around here, except for those on the VAXes, all the VMS disks (Alpha,
IA64, (virtual) X86_64) are ODS5, and I can't imagine wasting a whole
real disk on ODS2.  Been that way for years and years.

   I keep a 10MB (LD) virtual disk on my main (IA64) system for
experiments and testing.  I can't remember the last time I used it, but
evidence suggests that there was (late 2020) a bug in VMSTAR which
caused it to mishandle I/O errors.  The bad behavior was easier to
reproduce on ODS2, because more file names caused I/O errors there.



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