AFAIK volumes are used in round-robin. Only if they are of different sizes
small ones can filled and not be used lowering the parallelism.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Andrew Carlson <andyc AT ANDYC.CARENET DOT ORG>
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07.11.2002 19:33
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        Subject:        Storage Pool Volume Use/Order


I was told that TSM uses storage pool volumes in the order they are
defined.  I was wondering if that is true, and if there is any way to
verify it?  When I query the storage pool volumes, or use select with no
ordering, they come out in sorted order, not defined order.  Since this
is a new server, I could redefine the storage pool volumes with sorted
names in the order I want them used, but if behine the scenes it is
using them in defined order, that would be fine the way they are.
Thanks for any info


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