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This is useful because the capacity of our tape libraries is both large and expandable.  When a file has been moved to tape (or ''virtualized''), it still appears in the directory listing.  If the virtual file is read, the reading process will block for some time, probably a few minutes, while the file contents are read from tape to disk.   
This is useful because the capacity of our tape libraries is both large and expandable.  When a file has been moved to tape (or ''virtualized''), it still appears in the directory listing.  If the virtual file is read, the reading process will block for some time, probably a few minutes, while the file contents is read from tape to disk.   


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