From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 16 18:15:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05713 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 18:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA05708 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 18:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id VAA26317; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 21:15:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 21:15:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199608170115.VAA26317@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: terry@lambert.org CC: dgy@rtd.com, batie@agora.rdrop.com, chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199608161815.LAA03019@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:15:44 -0700 (MST)) Subject: Re: File System on a tape From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [moved to -chat] >> 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!) > Uh... I would have to insist on copying the entire image into core > for that one. 8-). > 1: "What's your tape drive doing?" > 2: "Paging from an executable image..." What, and you didn't do this as a torture test (for you, not your h/w) after reading the Hacker's Purity Test? :-) Have you ever used a swap device: a. A hard disk? b. A floppy disk? c. A drum? d. Magnetic tape? e. Punched cards? Now that I think about it, what's some of the more believable/inventive y'all have come up with as explainations for '/dev/drum'? How about other absurd computer folk tales? (I'm looking for things like convincing a user that /dev/null has just jumped the spindle, not whales exploding or mouse ball documents.) -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu The number you have reached is an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again.