On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:02:22PM -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:08:32PM -0400, Jon LaBadie enlightened us:
> > Have there been major changes/bug fixes to the taper
> > algorithm "largestfit" in recent versions?  I'm running
> > 2.4.4, but it is a two year old snapshot and I'm seeing
> > some really strange behavior.
> > 
> 
> In the 2.4.5 line, dumper will now try smallest instead of first if nothing
> will fit, in hopes that the smallest thing just might fit to tape. As to why
> it wasn't picking the largest to begin with is beyond me.
> 

Nor why one of the twenty dumps that would fit was not selected.

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