IBM Lotus Domino Administrator 8.0
Versions 8.0, 8.0.1, and 8.0.2

Domino's On-Disk Structure

IBM^® Lotus^® Domino^® supports file format, on-disk structure (ODS) 48.

See the Release Notes for version-specific information.

Upgrading from an earlier level of ODS to the current level

To upgrade from an earlier ODS to a current-level ODS format database in Domino, set the following file parameter in the NOTES.INI file on the Domino server or the IBM^® Lotus^® Notes^® client:

Create_R85_Databases=1

When you set the NOTES.INI parameter for ODS, new databases are created using the current level. Use copy-style compacting to upgrade existing ODS databases to the current level of ODS. Use this command to run copy-style compacting:

compact -c <database name>

Note In-place compacting has been changed. When a database with an earlier level of ODS is detected, Domino does not automatically convert to copy-style compact to upgrade your databases.

The current level of ODS provides potential improvement for I/O, folder optimization, and compression.

Reverting back one ODS level

To revert back one ODS level, use the compact -r command as shown here:

compact -r <database name>

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