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Regards, Kevin On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:50 AM Kenneth D. Merry 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 > > > > 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"