http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225514/As_60th_anniversary_nears_tape_reinvents_itself?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-03-29
...
Lemmons can write a video file to a tape; the tape then shows up
on any desktop, such as a Mac, Windows or Linux machine, and it
presents itself just as if it were a hard drive volume.
Hmmm. What OS is conspicuosly unmentioned? (But it's just a
"such as".)
...
Additional software is also required to ensure that any given
customer's data is securely isolated from every other user on
a given disk or array.
In LTO tape environments, however, each tape cartridge is
a separate object.
This somewhat contradicts the earlier passage that LTFS makes
a tape a general-purpose (presumably sharable) filesystem.
Disclaimer: I'm employed by a company mentioned among the
"major tape vendors" in the article.
-- gil
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