"Richard Scobie" <richard AT sauce.co DOT nz> kirjoitti viestissä
news:4B79AB7E.9080006 AT sauce.co DOT nz...
> Timo Neuvonen wrote:
>
>> Cancelling a job does not free the storage that the job occupied before
>> it
>> was cancelled.
>
> Thanks. I guess there is a reason for this but it seems counter
> intuitive - I'd expect if something is cancelled, for all resources to
> be freed.

I'm just a Bacula user with experience of some years, not a real guru. But I
guess one reason could be, that in general case there could have been
several concurrent jobs running. Then, if one of the running jobs were
cancelled, there necessarily wouldn't any more be a single contiguos big
block (at the end) of tape to free since there would be data from several
jobs interleaved to the tape. So that feature would be limited in
functionality to special cases only.

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TiN



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