Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!rayssd!m1b
From: m1b@rayssd.ray.com (M. Joseph Barone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Disk volume sets are wondeful.
Summary: How wonderful are they?
Message-ID: <1775@rayssd.ray.com>
Date: 22 Jan 88 17:19:42 GMT
References: <8801210028.AA14506@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: m1b@rayssd.ray.com (M. Joseph Barone @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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In article <8801210028.AA14506@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MACALLSTR@vax1.physics.oxford.ac.UK writes:
> Just in case anyone believes that volume sets are difficult/dangerous/etc :
>  ... 
> I'd recommend volume sets to anybody with enough disks to implement them. It
> greatly reduces the number of device,etc names users have to remember and you
> gradually expand existing logical devices simply by adding another volume to
> the set.

	Another wonderful feature of volume sets is that a head crash
on any one drive effectively takes them all out of commission from
the user's point of view!  Then, once the problem is fixed, you have
to restore the entire volume set from backup rather than just one disk
drive!  The more drives, the better, I say!  So, yes, I'd recommend
volume sets but only to my worst enemies!

Joe Barone ---------------------------> m1b@rayssd.RAY.COM
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