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Date:      Mon, 20 May 1996 17:03:01 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who wants a DPT SCSI controller driver?
Message-ID:  <199605210003.RAA29125@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605202328.QAA13931@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at May 20, 96 04:28:33 pm

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> >> Could do some testing on our 260+ cartridge DLT library (soon to be
> >> able to hold 260+ * 40Gb ;-)
> >Looks like you're the guy, since you have the hardware to test with.  8-).
> 
> Heck... if you can get that working, there's *another* neat thing we can
> probably do:  instead of compressing LRU files, move them off to tape.
> There are still some extra bits flags field that can be used for that.
> (Basicly, when you have a daemon that moves files off of disk and onto tape
> when space gets low, and a database to say where a specific device/inode is.
> Then, have the tapes loaded automatically.)
> 
> Wouldn't *that* be fun! ;)

Er... that's what an HSM does.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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