But hard disk are now cheap, what you propose is a good idea.

Patch is welcome.

Jean-Louis

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

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