...I have just answered my own question. If you ever permit a disk storage pool to fill up, you will then have as many Filling tapes in its corresponding tape storage pool as you have tape drives. These will gradually be filled up and absorbed, until next time the disk storage pool fills up.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, ============= ========= but in practice, theory and practice are different." ========= On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Roger Deschner wrote: >I have a non-collocated sequential (tape) storage pool. Why should there >ever be more than one tape in Filling status? I have four. Why can't it >fill one up and then start another? These are Super-DLT tapes, so each >one means something - 200gb compressed. > >I understand why I have lots of Filling tapes in a collocated tape pool >- that's the whole idea of collocation. But this is happening in a >non-collocated tape pool. > >Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] >== "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending === >===== the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." -Dan Salomon ====== > >
