On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:48:25PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 14:32, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > From this discussion, your and my observations also, it appears the
> > order of tapes listed in the tapelist file is immaterial.
> 
> I'm not sure about this, but I think the definition of "least recently used" 
> is based on the order in the tapelist file, not on an actual sort by date.

Empirically,
changing a tapes date to a date before the least recently used tape,
but not changing the order caused amtape ... taper to select
tape with the old date.

When both were set to the same old date,
the tapelist order was followed,
even when I reversed their order.

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