From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 07:55:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA08284 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08275 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0urQJ0-0008rKC; Fri, 16 Aug 96 07:55 PDT Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: File System on a tape To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:55:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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'. What's wrong with 'tar xvf /dev/rst0' for an installation? Now for a restore, it might be a useful model, but even there, it's just about as fast to 'tar tvf /dev/rst0 > tape.list', and you can go watch a movie in the meantime instead of waiting a few minutes to go to this directory, a few minutes to that directory, etc. It would be almost as bad as navigating the web :-) I'm surprised I haven't yet heard mention of the DEC tape system. I seem to recall that they had a system (PDP-8 version?) that ran solely off tape. -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.