From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
Cc: Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org>,
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux tape drivers
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:37:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404133708.6cfbe192.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704042121.09399.kern@sibbald.com>
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:21:08 +0200
Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable
> alternative,
> >
> > ow. ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing
> > bugs in it or anything. The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err,
> > because some tape drives need it.
> >
> > If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in
> > question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously
> > use then we have a bit of a problem. I don't know of anyone who we can
> > turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi.
> >
> >
>
> That's quite clear, thanks. I'll update our documentation to say that
> ide-scsi doesn't work with Bacula, is not actively supported and may be
> removed from the kernel.
That seems like a good idea, I'm afraid.
> What non-SCSI drivers do you feel are or should be well supported?
> libata as Kai indicates?
I don't know this stuff well enough to be able to answer that usefully,
sorry.
> Once I am sure, I'll point Bacula users to those drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200704031508.37222.kern@sibbald.com>
2007-04-03 20:39 ` Linux tape drivers Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 21:30 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-03 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 22:15 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-04 3:00 ` Willem Riede
2007-04-04 14:26 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-04 18:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 19:21 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-04 20:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-04 19:22 ` Willem Riede
2007-04-04 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 21:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-04-04 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 18:46 ` Kai Makisara
2007-04-04 19:50 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-04-04 20:58 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-04 21:54 ` Kai Makisara
2007-04-05 8:32 ` Kern Sibbald
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