tarfs ??? ohh, I've not heard of that...will research...
yes, pipe good Idea.. thanks!
as they say, I will stick that in my pipe and smoke it.
God, as much as I love linux, I'd love to be outside right now for a
beer. (like everyone else it about 10 feet from my position, if u know
what I mean matthew!).
Laters,
Lee
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 18:26, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> 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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