Have you read the documentation? There is no such thing as "copying a file." It's open, write x N, close. There isn't a way to know the size of the file ahead of time. The drive is selected at creation time and the create policy dictates that. By default it's `epmfs` which will choose the drive with the most free space which has the relative path being used.
If you want to keep a path preserving policy and have these kinds of situations handled look at the `moveonenospc` feature.