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From: dave@mystie.rtp.dg.com (David Kopper)
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Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
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Date: 27 Jan 91 03:32:23 GMT
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The real reason that Orca can't reorganize all directories is
that GS/OS prevents block I/O requests to a volume that
has an open file somewhere on it.  On the boot volume
the file that is open is */System/System.Setup/Sys.Resources
which is opened by the system software itself.

All other volumes can be reorganized with the orca commands.
If you want to reorder the boot volume, then you
must shutdown and boot from a different disk then
run orca and finally the commands to reorder the
directory.



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