Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 19:06:31 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199609160006.TAA19845@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199608161557.IAA19105@seagull.rtd.com> References: <m0urQJ0-0008rKC@agora.rdrop.com>
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You can get an IDE controller and an IDE CDROM for $60.00. And have any of you guys RUN a file system off a tape? I have. Even with DECTAPE cartridges and a file system designed for file systems it sucks, bigtime. And it's also going to put serious wear on any streaming tape drive... they're not designed to go stop-start like the DECTAPEs were. I suspect it'd be a use-once deal. Afterwards, you throw out the tape drive. Yes, by all means have an install from tape option... but it'd be easier and quicker to do it with a floppy boot to a tmpfs file system loaded off the first file on the tape, then just seek over whole tape files to extract particular options.
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