Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:09:05 -0500 From: Ken Merry <ken@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> Cc: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, FreeBSD-scsi <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for PCI express SCSI diff card recommendations Message-ID: <73EB5523-361E-49A2-AF33-2F5BAECD4759@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtAczc2upowAVdh%2BDVCyiL=m7805hpvyfd8w-_5Z7=d4Ag@mail.gmail.com> References: <9D2ED808-CE43-41BE-9698-45F0D85843A7@langille.org> <9C8F819A-7B8F-46C8-90E7-BDD16C785BD8@samsco.org> <36153F07-0FE2-4DD5-9BD9-EBD18F88FC10@kdm.org> <20190114142631.GA18432@neutralgood.org> <20190114144927.GP40028@mithlond.kdm.org> <CAK7dMtAczc2upowAVdh%2BDVCyiL=m7805hpvyfd8w-_5Z7=d4Ag@mail.gmail.com>
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Looks good, thank you! I put a couple of comments in there about tape drive compatibility and = configuring the kernel so you can write larger tape blocks. Thanks, Ken =E2=80=94=20 Ken Merry ken@FreeBSD.ORG > On Jan 14, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> = wrote: >=20 > Ken, >=20 > Give this a try https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18841 - if Spectra has > any config or rc scripts or whatever that I should add send it my way. >=20 > Regards, > Kevin >=20 > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:50 AM Kenneth D. Merry <ken@freebsd.org> = wrote: >>=20 >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:26:31 -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:10:43AM -0500, Ken Merry wrote: >>>> If you want to use LTFS on FreeBSD, I ported IBM???s LTFS to = FreeBSD: >>>>=20 >>>> https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs = <https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs>; >>>=20 >>> Any chance of that getting merged into the FreeBSD repo and becoming >>> officially supported? >>=20 >> It would probably make the most sense to put it in the ports tree. = It is a >> FUSE-based filesystem, and therefore easily installable as a port. = Making >> it a port would also make it easier to keep up to date with IBM's >> development. (It is under active development.) >>=20 >> As far as putting it in the base system, I think it is something that = will >> get used as a standalone filesystem fairly infrequently. Very few = people >> will have an IBM LTO-5 or newer drive / library. And most people = shelling >> out the money for any amount of tape are either going to run a backup >> package or archive package on it, not just LTFS by itself. >>=20 >> So, with stock FreeBSD, you would most likely run Bacula or Amanda = for >> backup usage. I'm not sure if there are commercial backup packages = with >> FreeBSD support. If you want a commercial FreeBSD-based archive = product >> that will manage your tape library and do a lot more: >>=20 >> https://spectralogic.com/products/blackpearl/ >>=20 >> BlackPearl uses LTFS as its tape storage format, so that even if you = want >> to switch to something else later on, you aren't "stuck" with a = proprietary >> tape format. It can also import other vendors' LTFS-formatted tapes, >> assuming they follow the standard... >>=20 >> If someone would like to make a port out of LTFS, that's fine with = me... >> (Just a little busy with other stuff right now, and I'm not a ports >> committer.) >>=20 >> Ken >> -- >> Kenneth Merry >> ken@FreeBSD.ORG >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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