Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> writes: > 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.
They do, indeed. > I'm pretty sure it would be possible to write a FUSE (file system > in user space extension) to implement what you imagine. Or write another device for Amanda to use, it would not be vtape, it would be ... something. Olivier --
