Can't comment on offsite reclamation, because cross site tape capability
means all reclamation is onsite, but in my environment TSM only selects
tapes marked full as reclamation candidates.





Richard Sims <rbs AT bu DOT edu>@vm.marist.edu> on 02/04/2004 08:48:24 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu>

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Subject:    Re: collocation


>Reclamation will only reclaim tapes that were once full and have met your
>rules for reclamation. It will not effect tapes that have a status of
>filling.

To the best of my knowledge, Filling volumes are subject to reclamation
just as much as Full volumes are: it's just a matter of the combined
size of the "holes" in the volume's thus-far-written area.  Remember
that there's no guarantee that you will never have more than one Filling
volume for a given stgpool: multiple processes may cause there to be
multiple volumes in Filling state.  This can eventually cause a Filling
volume to be just hanging around, unused for a long time; and the Filling
volume could be 98% written.  You want such stuff reclaimed.

    Richard Sims,  http://people.bu.edu/rbs



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