Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb:

> However, the driver always schedules its PORT_WRITE (direct to tape)
> dumps *after* its holding-based runs.  The idea is that dumping
> directly to tape basically monopolizes the entire server
> infrastructure, so it's better to get the cooperating dumps out of the
> way first.
> 
> So the behavior you're seeing with this particular config is intended,
> although it's not what you expected.

I understand the intentions but on the other hand it should be possible
to get the behavior I expected as well:

Write "holdingdisk no"-DLEs to tape while other stuff gets in via dumpers.

In my specific case this would help to speed up things a lot.

Stefan