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From: MACALLSTR@vax1.physics.oxford.ac.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Disk volume sets are wondeful.
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Date: 21 Jan 88 01:50:39 GMT
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Just in case anyone believes that volume sets are difficult/dangerous/etc :

 all you have to do ( after initialising the disks ) is to issue the simple
 mount command

 $ MOUNT/SYS/BIND=name  device1:,device2:  label1,label2

After that you can refer to the set with 'name' or 'device1' and all operations
 and utilities appear to treat it as a single device. I haven't encountered any
 problems with any item of software so far : backup/restore/quotas,etc all work
 as well as on a single device.

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.

John