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From: XRBEO@VPFVM.BITNET (Bruce O'Neel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Transaction count on disk devices
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Date: 30 Jun 88 11:41:04 GMT
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I've always found that the transaction count is quite close to the number of
files that show up when you do a show dev/files

eg.

show dev d shows dua1 having a transaction count of 50, if you do a show
dev/files on dua1 you should get 50 open files (or so).  This is my
observation, not from dec

bruce