Bill Lancaster writes:

>Lastly, I would suggest another permutation which has some performance
>benefit.  Since you will be controlling the location on tape where you put
>files, you will also be controlling location on disk where you put files
>when you restore them.  You can take greater advantage of this if you
>extend your indirect file scenario to locate the most heavily accessed
>files early on in the store.  This way, when you restore the files, they
>will be going on to the outer cylinders of the disk effectively packing
the
>data into more efficiently accessed areas of disk.

Wow!  It's all I can do to keep an handle on disk free space (contiguous 
and otherwise), and now I gotta worry about whether my data is on an 
efficient portion of the disk or not! :-)

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