Appeal No. 1999-0005 Application 08/188,001 set, would be selected. The invention assigns a weight to each PDSD based on its physical proximity to all the data volumes of the collection of data volumes defining a multi-volume data set and selects the PDSD with the closest overall physical proximity to the volumes of the data set. - 3 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007