It does work that way.  If a client is backing up to tape, directly or
not, keeping the mount avoids thrashing.

Steffan

Joel Fuhrman wrote:
>
> I thought it always worked this way.  At one time I was going to put in a
> request to have two mount retention times.  One for when there are no
> pending request for a drive and the other for when there are pending
> request.
>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Joe Faracchio wrote:
>
> > I recently upgraded from 3.1.2.20 to 3.7.2.0
> > and notice a very annoying behaviour.
> >
> > The system keeps an idle tape mounted for the full retention period
> > specified despite the pending mounts that are waiting.
> >
> > when / where will this be fixed???
> >
> > thanks ... joe.f.
> >
> > Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
> >