Hi, its really no problem but something changed since we are using the bigger 3592 drives - the volumes increased here from 40 GB -> 300 GB and at the same time we started to use group-collocation. After one year in use now Volumes are much more longer in 'filling'. So of course it's nothing else than to write to them.
But anyway something else is happening: at the Moment the last byte is written on the volume and it changes to state 'FULL' the same volume more often will show for example 80 % reclaimable space. Just because of the longer time expiration can put the holes on it. The bigger the volumes are in use - the more you may think about those filling volumes . And I really would not care if a filling tape that already got much more than the estimated Capacity and would show let's say 80% reclaimable space then start to reclaim by the recalamation process - not by me :-) Regards, Rainer Roger Deschner wrote: > > I have never seen reclamation take a Filling volume. I thought the Big > Idea ever since the product was called WDSF was to fill up the Filling > volumes until they are Full, let expiration gradually eat holes in them, > and then reclaim them. What's the point in reclaiming a tape that isn't > full yet? Even with collocation, I don't get it. If it isn't full yet, > the only thing you should be doing to it is writing more data to it. > > Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ============= What if there were no rhetorical questions? ============== > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Richard Sims wrote: > > >On Mar 27, 2006, at 1:56 AM, Rainer Wolf wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Roger Deschner wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> 3. The Full tapes should reclaim themselves normally. However, > >>> reclamation will not select any tape that is still marked as > >>> Filling, so > >>> you've got to reclaim them manually yourself with MOVE DATA. Might > >>> take > >>> a while, which is OK as long as you don't run out of tapes. > >> > >> Is it true ? I thought that reclamation can also affect > >> volumes in filling state - why not ? > > > >Reclamation operates on any usable volume, regardless of Full or > >Filling. Of course, when you get to the point of reclaiming Filling > >volumes, reclamation may not then be a productive thing to do. > > > > Richard Sims > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Wolf eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kiz - Abt. Infrastruktur Tel/Fax: ++49 731 50-22482/22471 Universitaet Ulm wwweb: http://kiz.uni-ulm.de
