Richard Scobie wrote:
> Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> 
>> Cancelling a job does not free the storage that the job occupied before it
>> was cancelled.
> 
> Thanks. I guess there is a reason for this but it seems counter 
> intuitive - I'd expect if something is cancelled, for all resources to 
> be freed.

As Timo said, in a tape, jobs may be interleaved. Because of that it's 
dangerous to automatically purge one because of a job failure.

Note that if you delete the failed JobId from the database and that job 
is the only one on the tape, it will free up for reuse almost immediately.

AB



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