Thanks for the clarification Mark. This is something I had never really tested and had always wondered about.
Guillaume Gilbert Systems Specialist 514.866.8876 Office 514.866.0901 Fax 514.290.6526 BlackBerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] StorageTek Canada -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: March 21, 2005 13:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Spontaneous reclamation From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tab Trepagnier >I think Guillaume might have figured it out. Let's say we keep five >versions of a file. If, during the night, the system picks up a sixth >version, does the oldest version scroll off immediately? Or >does it wait >for reclamation? If immediately, that is almost certainly >what happened. >But what is odd is that I've never noticed that occurrence >before despite >administering the system for the last seven years! No, the oldest version of the file doesn't just roll off. You have to run an inventory expiration to delete the pointer to the old file; once the pointer is deleted, and you meet your reclamation threshhold, the file indicated by the expired pointer will vanish when the volume it resides in is reclaimed and reused. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office 262.521.5627
