>In the Administrators Guide, Chapter 9, page 145  (ADSM V3R1 Windows NT
>manual) topic "How The Server Selects Volumes with Collocation Enabled" has
>a complete description.
>
>                -----Original Message-----
>                From:   Robinson, Cris
>[mailto:Cris.Robinson AT LIBERTYMUTUAL DOT COM]
>                Sent:   Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:51 PM
>                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>                Subject:        Collocation of  filespaces
>
>                 Here is a question for you all...
>
>                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?
>
>                Thanks -
>                Cris & Kelly (Lipp) living large in New Hampshire
>                __________________________________________________
>                Cris Robinson
>                Sr. Technical Analyst
>                Enterprise Storage Management / TSM (ADSM)
>                Liberty Mutual Insurance
>                Portsmouth, New Hampshire
>                603.431.8400.54837
>                mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com