Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 21:15:27 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: dgy@rtd.com, batie@agora.rdrop.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199608170115.VAA26317@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608161815.LAA03019@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:15:44 -0700 (MST))
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>> Also, you can't *run* a system off of a tar image (whereas you
>> *could* mount a tape filesystem and execute whatever is on the
>> tape!)
> Uh... I would have to insist on copying the entire image into core
> for that one. 8-).
> 1: "What's your tape drive doing?"
> 2: "Paging from an executable image..."
What, and you didn't do this as a torture test (for you, not your h/w)
after reading the Hacker's Purity Test? :-)
Have you ever used a swap device:
a. A hard disk?
b. A floppy disk?
c. A drum?
d. Magnetic tape?
e. Punched cards?
Now that I think about it, what's some of the more
believable/inventive y'all have come up with as explainations for
'/dev/drum'? How about other absurd computer folk tales? (I'm
looking for things like convincing a user that /dev/null has just
jumped the spindle, not whales exploding or mouse ball documents.)
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