In regard to: Re: [Networker] Write protected tape, Darren Dunham said (at...:

>Further, this appears to happen when 'nsrim' marks it so.  I've taken a
>tape that is still appendable and marked the only saveset on it
>recyclable....
>
>$ nsrmm -o recyclable -S 533865729
>Mark save set 533865729 as recyclable? y
>$ mminfo -r 'volume,state,%used,volflags,volretent'
> volume             (%) flags expires
>DLT.001              6%     undef
>
>Then I ran nsrim...
>
>$ nsrim -X
>nsrserver:/, 0 browsable cycle(s)
>0 browsable files of 40235 total, 0 KB recoverable of 560 MB total
>
>DLT.001:  564 MB used,     1 save sets, appendable->recyclable, 1
>recyclable save sets
>$ mminfo -r 'volume,state,%used,volflags,volretent'
> volume             (%) flags expires
>DLT.001        E     6% r   expired
>
>It didn't mark the tape 'full', but it did mark it recyclable and
>read-only.

This shoots down the theory I posited yesterday, about non-full volumes
that become recyc possibly not picking up (R) at the same time.

Thanks for testing it!

Tim
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