DOMINO SERVER INSTALLATION

Domino's On-Disk Structure
IBM® Lotus® Domino® supports file format, on-disk structure (ODS) 51.

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:


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, compression, and attachment consolidation.

Reverting back one ODS level

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