On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:44:02AM +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote: > Il 27/08/19 05:55, Olivier ha scritto: > > > But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial > > accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned, > > it is writting files the size of one Amanda's chunk. In fact, that would > > be worth a study: the disk usage for vtapes vs. normal disk usage. > That's the *perfect* use-case for SMR drives. But they'd need either no > filesystem (like tapes :) ) or a dedicated one. > Is it possible to use raw devices as vtapes?
My guess is that vtapes are expecting normal *nix file names and system/library calls. I'm pretty sure it would be possible to write a FUSE (file system in user space extension) to implement what you imagine. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
