Hi,
its really no problem but something changed since we are using the bigger
3592 drives - the volumes increased here from 40 GB -> 300 GB
and at the same time we started to use group-collocation.
After one year in use   now Volumes are much more longer in 'filling'.
So of course it's nothing else than to write to them.

But anyway something else is happening: at the Moment the last
byte is written on the volume and it changes to state 'FULL'
the same volume more often will show for example 80 %  reclaimable space.
Just because of the longer time expiration can put the holes on it.

The bigger the volumes are in use - the more you may think about those
filling volumes . And I really would not care if a filling
tape that already got much more than the estimated Capacity and would
show let's say 80% reclaimable space then start to reclaim
by the recalamation process  - not by me :-)

Regards,
Rainer



Roger Deschner wrote:
>
> I have never seen reclamation take a Filling volume. I thought the Big
> Idea ever since the product was called WDSF was to fill up the Filling
> volumes until they are Full, let expiration gradually eat holes in them,
> and then reclaim them. What's the point in reclaiming a tape that isn't
> full yet? Even with collocation, I don't get it. If it isn't full yet,
> the only thing you should be doing to it is writing more data to it.
>
> Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT 
> edu
> ============= What if there were no rhetorical questions? ==============
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Richard Sims wrote:
>
> >On Mar 27, 2006, at 1:56 AM, Rainer Wolf wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Roger Deschner wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 3. The Full tapes should reclaim themselves normally. However,
> >>> reclamation will not select any tape that is still marked as
> >>> Filling, so
> >>> you've got to reclaim them manually yourself with MOVE DATA. Might
> >>> take
> >>> a while, which is OK as long as you don't run out of tapes.
> >>
> >> Is it true ?  I thought that reclamation can also affect
> >> volumes in filling state - why not ?
> >
> >Reclamation operates on any usable volume, regardless of Full or
> >Filling. Of course, when you get to the point of reclaiming Filling
> >volumes, reclamation may not then be a productive thing to do.
> >
> >   Richard Sims
> >

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