Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:05:38 -0700 From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> Cc: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, FreeBSD-scsi <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for PCI express SCSI diff card recommendations Message-ID: <CAK7dMtAczc2upowAVdh%2BDVCyiL=m7805hpvyfd8w-_5Z7=d4Ag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190114144927.GP40028@mithlond.kdm.org> References: <9D2ED808-CE43-41BE-9698-45F0D85843A7@langille.org> <9C8F819A-7B8F-46C8-90E7-BDD16C785BD8@samsco.org> <36153F07-0FE2-4DD5-9BD9-EBD18F88FC10@kdm.org> <20190114142631.GA18432@neutralgood.org> <20190114144927.GP40028@mithlond.kdm.org>
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Ken, Give this a try https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18841 - if Spectra has any config or rc scripts or whatever that I should add send it my way. Regards, Kevin On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:50 AM Kenneth D. Merry <ken@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:26:31 -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:10:43AM -0500, Ken Merry wrote: > > > If you want to use LTFS on FreeBSD, I ported IBM???s LTFS to FreeBSD: > > > > > > https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs <https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs>; > > > > Any chance of that getting merged into the FreeBSD repo and becoming > > officially supported? > > It would probably make the most sense to put it in the ports tree. It is a > FUSE-based filesystem, and therefore easily installable as a port. Making > it a port would also make it easier to keep up to date with IBM's > development. (It is under active development.) > > As far as putting it in the base system, I think it is something that will > get used as a standalone filesystem fairly infrequently. Very few people > will have an IBM LTO-5 or newer drive / library. And most people shelling > out the money for any amount of tape are either going to run a backup > package or archive package on it, not just LTFS by itself. > > So, with stock FreeBSD, you would most likely run Bacula or Amanda for > backup usage. I'm not sure if there are commercial backup packages with > FreeBSD support. If you want a commercial FreeBSD-based archive product > that will manage your tape library and do a lot more: > > https://spectralogic.com/products/blackpearl/ > > BlackPearl uses LTFS as its tape storage format, so that even if you want > to switch to something else later on, you aren't "stuck" with a proprietary > tape format. It can also import other vendors' LTFS-formatted tapes, > assuming they follow the standard... > > If someone would like to make a port out of LTFS, that's fine with me... > (Just a little busy with other stuff right now, and I'm not a ports > committer.) > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@FreeBSD.ORG > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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