On 2/10/20 11:31 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > What about a SD writing to multiple local 'Device' objects? And segueing > into a related subject, why is a job locked into a particular Device at > job startup? Rather than a one-time allocation of device and then one or > more subsequent allocations of volume(s) as separate operations, why not > allocate device and volume together as a pair in a single atomic > operation? This would allow a job to potentially change devices when a > different volume was needed and would be beneficial for autochangers > that have more than one drive, including virtual disk autochangers.
Why is media type tied to a device? I never understood this: I get that you may not want to stick an lto-1 tape into an lto-4 drive, but those are device *types* -- nothing's stopping me from having two lto-1 drives in my jukebox and have two devices capable of using lto-1 media. (Or is it no longer the case) -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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