In the Administrators Guide, Chapter 9, page 145  (ADSM V3R1 Windows NT
manual) topic "How The Server Selects Volumes with Collocation Enabled" has
a complete description.

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Robinson, Cris
[mailto:Cris.Robinson AT LIBERTYMUTUAL DOT COM]
                Sent:   Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:51 PM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Collocation of  filespaces

                 Here is a question for you all...

                If you collocate filespaces to a pool with maxscratch
limited to a set
                number of scratch tapes smaller than the number of
filepaces, *sm will write
                soingle file space to each tape until all scratches are
consumed. At that
                point it will start doubling them up. Question... What
happens at that
                point? will it attempt to put the next filespace on a tape
without that
                node's filespaces or will it go to a tape with that node's
filespaces?
                I.E., Will it divy up the filespaces amoung the tapes?

                Thanks -
                Cris & Kelly (Lipp) living large in New Hampshire
                __________________________________________________
                Cris Robinson
                Sr. Technical Analyst
                Enterprise Storage Management / TSM (ADSM)
                Liberty Mutual Insurance
                Portsmouth, New Hampshire
                603.431.8400.54837
                mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com