> We're beginning to run across an interesting problem, now that
> we have collocation turned off.  Even though we have a quite
> small operation so far (only 100 nodes and about 30 GByte of
> data stored) sometimes a user is not able to backup files because
> large files are written directly to tape and the tape is in use.
> Have others run into this?  Would turning colocation on make this
> situation less likely?  I realize we could raise the limit on the
> size of files allowed to our disk storage pool, but we are trying
> to run this as a cost recovery service and are trying to keep
> the costs down and so have a rather small size disk storage pool
> (about 2 Gbytes).
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>

The problem turned out to be that the operators did an OS mount,
which kicked off a started task.  An ADSM client tried to access
the tape volume before the started task completed.

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