Ron wrote:
 
>[Regarding Mirrordisc/iX on MPE/iX 4.0]:
>This problem really has me stumped.  We haven't been able to
>VSCLOSE <setname>; SPLIT on one of three mirrored volumesets
>for several days because it has always been seen to be 'in use'.
 
>VSUSER prints a header, but no users (unlike other sets, where
>no header is printed and appropriate message something like
>'no users reserved' or whatever).  FSCHECK reports absolutely
>no problems with directory, file labels, extent mapping or
>locked files.
 
>There are no users (other than operator or manager.sys) and
>no jobs.  SHOWQ and a deep examination of all active and dormant
>PINs show no files open on the volumeset.
 
My guess is either there are some files still opened on the user volume
set or the volume set file open count is out of sync.  Each time a file
is opened or closed, the count is incremented or decremented by 1.  The
user volume set can not be closed or splitted until that count is zero.
 
Over the years, we have seen it happened (count out of sync) occasionally.
If you can reproduct the problem, it will be really easy to verify.  Ask
your HP support to dail in the system and check it.
 
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