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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Does a Tape Filesystem exists? Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 13:15:00 GMT Message-ID: <CG0st1.6Hw@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <CFzsro.11J@cc.umontreal.ca> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 12 In <CFzsro.11J@cc.umontreal.ca> surprenc@beryl (Leclerc Marco) writes: >I was wondering if a tape filesystem exists anywhere? >(so we could mount/umount a tape). You don't need a tape filesystem, you need a block device driver for the tape. FFS does just fine on a tape. Using a log structured filesystem of some sort might speed things up, however. -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org --- +49 721 606137 Und dann OVERKILLEN wir sie. -- Atan Shubashi