ADSM-L

Re: Collocation of filespaces

2000-02-15 15:17:51
Subject: Re: Collocation of filespaces
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:17:51 -0500
>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?

Chris - My understanding is that collocation in general will at that point
        select the tape with the lowest utilization in the storage pool
and write the remainder of the session data to it.
       Richard Sims, BU
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