Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 21:38:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Tape file systems (Was: Nightmare.) Message-ID: <199608151938.VAA01747@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608151541.KAA13861@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Aug 15, 96 10:41:43 am"
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As Joe Greco wrote: (file system on tape) > > Please fix it if you have time. It is a usefull feature, in particular > > for a dat that can do moderately fast positioning. > > I don't have a DAT handy to try this with, actually (not here at least), > does anybody know what problems might prevent this? Writes won't work at all, since all our `streamer' drives do not support writing in the middle of a tape, they only allow appending. This is different with 9-track reel-to-reel tapes which are random access media. Read/only mounting should work on the (almost forgotten, but basically supported) block device, but all i get when trying it are IO errors. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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