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From: surprenc@beryl (Leclerc Marco)
Subject: Does a Tape Filesystem exists?
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 00:16:35 GMT
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Hi,
I was wondering if a tape filesystem exists anywhere?
(so we could mount/umount a tape).
Of course it would be rather slow, but could be usefull when
owning a high capacity tape drive on which some tapes are used
to do archiving and using tar for it might not be very flexible.
Thanks,
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