Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:57:12 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199608161557.IAA19105@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <m0urQJ0-0008rKC@agora.rdrop.com> from "Alan Batie" at Aug 16, 96 07:55:22 am
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It seems that Alan Batie said: > > > 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 Nothing! *But* if you want to extract one *file*, tar sucks eggs. Also, you can't *run* a system off of a tar image (whereas you *could* mount a tape filesystem and execute whatever is on the tape!) > 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. TU58's? --don
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