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Fixed third reviewer comment - Does this mean the background task is resumed

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......@@ -304,10 +304,11 @@ adjustments are expected as experience with CTA grows.
\subsection{Tape drive pre-emption}
A background task that repacks or verifies a whole tape can take several hours.
Such long duration background tasks must be pre-empted when higher priority user
tasks arrive in order to meet the latency requirements of users. The tape
daemon will keep polling the scheduling information at a low rate and interrupt
a low priority background task if a higher priority one is available to replace
it.
tasks arrive in order to meet the latency requirements of users. A pre-empted
background task will be resumed at a later point in time when it again becomes
the highest priority task. The tape daemon will keep polling the scheduling
information at a low rate and interrupt a low priority background task if a
higher priority one is available to replace it.
This mixing of high and low priority tasks previously had to be handled by hand or \textit{ad hoc}
scripts in CASTOR.
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