> Linux, open sores, and questions of a technical nature are > all on topic for > the main list.
Great! > I don't know if you can present a Linux block device back out a SCSI > controller... the closest thing I know of that you can do this with is > i-scsi, i.e. present the block device over the network. I > haven't actually > done anything with i-scsi though, so can't help you further. Thanks, iSCSI may be a solution. > >2) Can I use a chunk of disk space as a virtual tape drive > using for free? > >There are plenty of commercial options around, and I was > just hoping there > >was an open source alternative. > > AMANDA ( http://amanda.org ) has support for what it calls > vtapes, i.e. > using a set of directories in place of physical tape. > There's plenty of > howtos on the website on setting it up. >From what I can see this functionality (chg-disk) is application level. What I really need is a /dev node that looks like a tape device but reads a writes from a disk, either through a mounted file system or raw/direct to a disk. Any ideas? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
