On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Steen wrote:

> If I am not mistaken, the 'Volume Use Duration' is conceived of in the 
> context of limiting additions to a used but not full volume by following 
> jobs to a certain timeframe (which is practical in terms of the rotation 
> scheme)

Very practical in the case of tape Volumes.

> whereas 'Maximum Volume Bytes' is intended to limit the growth 
> of the volume caused by the running job.

Very practical in the case of disk Volumes.

> It seems to me to be not very practical to use a timeframe to limit the size
> of volumes, as you wont have a standard size, which in many ways is handy.

See above. The reason for the different commands should now be clearer.

AB



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