On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, George Sinclair wrote:

> WOW! I guess I was pretty ignorant of the power of that command! It
> worked just like you said. Here's a question, though. Let's suppose
> instead of doing this:
>
> nsrjb -IEv -S 1-6
>
> to launch an inventory in parellel across all 2 drives, I instead did
> this:
>
> nsrjb -I -f /dev/rmt1 -S 1-3 &
> nsrjb -I -f /dev/rmt2 -S 4-6 &
>
> to launch a separate nsrjb process per drive. Would this not accomplish
> the same thing in the same amount of time? I guess I thought this was
> what the max parellelism value was for. To allow you to do things like
> this. I guess it allows you to do both what you were referring to and
> what I mentioned, too?

Try it and find out. Frankly, I think its easy just to leave tape library
parallelism set to at least the number of tape drives - 1 and issue the
single command:

  nsrjb -Iv -S 1-6

to have it inventory across multiple tape drives.

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