Re: Volume shadowing question

From: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply (helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:54:54 +0000 (UTC)

In article <c0u13a$dpu$2@newslocal.mitre.org>, lewis@mazda.mitre.org
(Keith A. Lewis) writes:

> helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes in article <c0tskr$8i3$1@online.de> dated Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:13:15 +0000 (UTC):
> >
> >If you make sure that no application on node C has files open on the
> >shadow sets before it goes down, then you should be OK.
>
> VMS keeps [000000]INDEXF.SYS open as long as the disk is mounted. I would
> recommend a DISMOUNT command in sys$manager:syshutdwn.com.

The normal shutdown dismounts all disks at some point, but I'm not sure
if it dismounts all disks mounted by that node (perhaps not) or all
disks directly connected to that node (probably). If the latter, I
think it does just a DISMOUNT and not a DISMOUNT/CLUSTER. (Which is not
relevant to the original poster's question, but might be in other
contextes.)

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