[Info-vax] Disk size in the virtual world

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
>I wonder when this was added to VMS.
>
>It is not relevant for physical disks. But it must have
>turned relevant when SAN's were introduced.

It is very relevant to physical disks.  You install a new bigger disk, and
you copy the fileystem over and expand it once it's copied over.  This is
much, much faster than doing a file-by-file copy.
--scott
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