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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: File System on a tape
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:19:11 -0700 (MST)
Cc: dgy@rtd.com, batie@agora.rdrop.com, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199608161815.LAA03019@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 16, 96 11:15:44 am
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It seems that Terry Lambert said:
> 
> > 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-).

But, that's "free"... assuming, of course, you have enough RAM
for the executable in question!  Once it's read from the tape,
you're limited only by the rest of the system iron...

Just think v-e-r-y---s-l-o-w  :>

But, then again, so isn't running/installing from a floppy *or* a
(QIC style) tape...
 
> 1:	"What's your tape drive doing?"
> 2:	"Paging from an executable image..."

This is what made it such an amusing concept when I was writing it!
Wondering just how long it would take for the transport to give
up the ghost...

--don