JBREDESE@carleton.edu.UUCP (02/24/87)
We are looking for a disk restructuring package that will run on our VAXCluster (11/780, 2 11/750s, 5 RA81 disks) running VMS V4.5. It should meet the following criteria: 1) It should run in the background as a detached job or some such thing. 2) It should not use up to many resources (obviously). 3) We would like to control various aspects of the restructuring such as 'how often it looks at a disk', 'when does it do most of the restructuring', and other things that are useful. Since we do not have one now, we are not 100% sure what the 'useful' things are. 4) It should *NEVER* leave the entire disk in an unusable form. A file or directory left hosed if (when?) the system crashes might be acceptable IF the odds of this happening are EXTREMELY small. 5) It must be reasonably priced. Any comments regarding the various packages avaiable (including the one in the DECUS library) would be most helpful. We do not have time to bring in every package for a test drive (no pun intended), so any hints as to which packages to bring/not bring in would save us a lot of time. Also, what sort of criteria is useful in determining how well a package does its job. Assuming that they all make all files contiguous (is this a fair assumption?), does placement on the disk matter? More importantly, how much does it matter? Placement of directories and bitmaps? Please respond to me directly and I will summarize to the net. Thanks in advance, John Bredesen System Manager Carleton College jbredese@carleton.edu (507)663-4627