Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 06:26:13 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: pechter@shell.monmouth.com, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199608161326.GAA08422@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199608161241.IAA04574@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Aug 16, 96 08:41:17 am
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> > We could sure use something like this. Some kind of program would be needed > > to boot the tape, though. A modified FreeBSD program loader that would load > > from tape... Could something like this be done under dos for recovery and > > installation? > > While it's an interesting novelty, how is this better than > booting/loading something off a floppy? Pretty much everyone will Surely you jest? Have you ever tried to *load* FBSD off of floppies? With a file system on tape, you can boot and then just mount the tape and 'cp /tape/what/ever/you/want /wherever/you/want/it'. With floppies, you'd have to have explicitly prepared individual little filesystems to be able to recover anything at whill. Or, play with all the little furrballs, etc. > have a floppy on their system (or perhaps a CDROM drive), but how many > have a tape drive? I suspect anyone who take this stuff halfway serious has *some* form of tape -- even a little cartridge tape! > I think that a floppy disk bootstrap for a "full-feature" read-only > CDROM filesystem would be considerably more useful. I thought we already have that? And, it doesn't help you with anything *else* you've added to the file hierarchy -- e.g., ports! > Though not quite as good a hack, I'll grant you. My mt driver should be able to do this -- it was one of the criteria I used when writing it (and Joerg and I had a few chuckles over the silliness of it!) but I haven't gotten off my butt and ported it to 2.1R (from 1.1.5.1R). Also, I doubt it would help anyone *else* (since every query I posted to the list failed to produce any other folks with similar devices) :> I'm curious as to whether or not my DLT would work in a block mode. Or, is the limitation solely in the st device??? --don
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