We also use ADSM 3.1.2.20 (for Solaris) with IBM 3494 Libraries and have
observed behavior consistent with that described by Joseph in the original email
- an idle mount will be immediately dismounted if/when there is another mount
pending and no other drive is available. However, we also recently dropped the
mount retention from the default 60 minutes down to just 5 minutes.
Under what scenarios (or rationale) does it make sense to force tapes to remain
mounted more than 5 minutes after a client backup session has completed?
-Kent M., GSK
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Subject: Re: tape mount retention behaviour
I thought it always worked this way. At one time I was going to put in a
request to have two mount retention times. One for when there are no
pending request for a drive and the other for when there are pending
request.
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Joe Faracchio wrote:
> I recently upgraded from 3.1.2.20 to 3.7.2.0
> and notice a very annoying behaviour.
>
> The system keeps an idle tape mounted for the full retention period
> specified despite the pending mounts that are waiting.
>
> when / where will this be fixed???
>
> thanks ... joe.f.
>
> Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
>
