ODS-5 was not supported for systems disk on VMS 7.3. Now with 7.3-1, it is. The man reason why the installation/upgrade procedure offers you a convertion is: you cannot do it on a system mounted disk. The disk has to be private mounted and that is a problem with VMS booted from that disk. All other drives are easy to convert and Compaq/hp expects that you did it already "by hand" to get the advantages of ods-5.
I am running ods-5 disks on most of my alphas, and with pathworks there are some advanteges: long filenames, more than 8 directory levels, upper- and lowercase filenames. My samba 2.2.4 on vms 7.3-1 does not preserve upper- and lowercase. Maybe not supported or a setup problem, I did't have the time to test it in detail. But anyway, the hard link feature of ods-5 alone is a good reason to convert the disks. Greetings Dieter > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Michael D. Ober > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 24. September 2002 15:17 > An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Betreff: Convert from ODS-2 to ODS-5 > > What are the benefits and gotcha's of converting from ODS-2 to ODS-5 on a > VMS 7.3-1 system with Samba VMS 2.2.4 running. Also, how is it done. The > VMS 7.3-1 upgrade offered to do this for our system drive, but not for our > data drives, so we didn't do it. > > Thanks in Advance, > Mike Ober. >