On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:00:09AM -0700, Hardware Stuff wrote:
> So...can I make a RAID0-linear of tape drives? Older, lower capacity
> drives abound. Onsale has 2 Gig drives for $40. An 8 Gig tape
> compatible with Linux is $800. I can buy alot of pizza with the
> difference. Getting a busy small office staff to feed a single tape
> drive is tough, a single staff operation (i.e. put in all the tapes)
> is alot more likely to occur.
>
> It would seem that an intermediate layer to hide the character nature
> of tape drives inside a software block device might allow something to
> be produced. It doesn't need to be fast, backups can take all night
> for an office.
>
What i don't understand is why you would need to have kernel support
just to switch tapes, when you can do it safely in user space as
everyone else does.
And if you are feeling brave enough you can even do parallel backups
and restores (that would be faster)
Regards,
Luca
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Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System and Network Manager - CoMedia s.r.l.
