Smaller volumes increase the chance that a volume will become totally empty, rather than just drop below the recycle threshold. Therefore eliminating the need to move data during recycle.
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Brian Westerman < [email protected]> wrote: > Actually I think you have that reversed, the smaller volumes will tend to > increase the amount of recycling because less data has to be freed up to > make a larger percentage of the volume and you have a LOT more of them. > Although I have heard that some sites the use small volumes only free them > at recycle when they are completely empty. > > Things can get even more complicated if you duplex the tapes. > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
