  The terse defragmentation dept 
 The Question is:
 
Is it necessary to defragment the disks of an EVA?
 
 The Answer is :
 
  Please evaluate the performance as an aggregate, and seek out areas
  that are restricting performance -- while the controller may or may
  not provide low-level optimizations, the file-internal or volume-level
  fragementation can degrade OpenVMS performance.
 
  Whether or not this defragmentation operation is necessary in any
  particular instance is unanswerable without far more detail.
 Answer written or last revised on  30-DEC-2003 
