On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Lee wrote:
> Whist were talking about tape drives, are there any linux hacks that you
> can 'mount' a(very slow) file system from a tape (read only perhaps).
> I've seen it down once on NT with something called tape disk, and the
> company using it was storing sattelite images (huge) , but it mounted as
> a filesystem, so they could still use the normal software tools. I need
> somewhere to put my mp3's ;-).
>
> If NT can do it, I'm sure linux will have a better solution.
Well, you could tar in the normal way, and then write a tarfs system. I
know that it's been pratted around with for HURD for a long time. Doubt
any code's been written.
Really, you should just be able to read off the tape and pipe straight
into the player but you may find that the tape gives the data too fast.
In which case should the machine buffer it? What happens at this point?
How big can the buffers get?
As for storage, I'd use Arkaei (sp) or similar simply because it's
easier and quicker to find files than with one huge tar ball.
Updating files may also cause problems... ...unless you're good with
scissors and tape! ;-)
Matthew
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