>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:32:20 +0330, Mehdi Salehi <[email protected]> >> said:
> Say there is not disk storage pool and two clients from the two tape > storage pools accidentally sent their backups exactly at the same > time. Which one graps the tape drive first? "exactly" the same time, isn't. One of them is first, even if it's a matter of which thread gets executed first. In any case, there's only one lock for a tape drive. When that DRIVE is moved from IDLE to WAITING FOR MEDIA, the other process is out of luck, it will wait. - Allen S. Rout
