> My thoughts were to first try to see if legato deals with multiple path 
> choices to the same devices in an
> intelligent fashion, or at least pick the next device randomly (which 
> would, on average, give a proper
> load balance).

I don't know of any way to do this.  Unlike disks which often have OS
level or application level multipathing support, tapes don't tend to.  

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