Filesystem spanning?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:03 pm
So I'm getting back into dabbling with VMS, what with all the talk surrounding the end of the hobbyist program. Got my final PAK, got 8.4 set up on an Alpha workstation I got as a rescue, got the basics configured...but now I'm wracking my brain trying to remember how to set up a spanned filesystem, which I swear I had going on my VAXStation last time I was puttering around with this.
Basically, I really would like to have the system treating the two hard disks as one uniform storage space and spanning files across them transparently, since the only compatible disks I have on hand are in the 1-2 GB range and I'd like to get some more software installed...only problem is, when I went to look at the documentation for volume sets, one of the first things it says is *not* to include the system disk in a volume set. I swear I had this set up on my VAXStation, but it's been some years since I was last digging into this, and I never was super familiar with it...*is* there a way to do this?
Basically, I really would like to have the system treating the two hard disks as one uniform storage space and spanning files across them transparently, since the only compatible disks I have on hand are in the 1-2 GB range and I'd like to get some more software installed...only problem is, when I went to look at the documentation for volume sets, one of the first things it says is *not* to include the system disk in a volume set. I swear I had this set up on my VAXStation, but it's been some years since I was last digging into this, and I never was super familiar with it...*is* there a way to do this?