From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@alcove.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer...
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:04:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001218190442.B473@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001218112529.B6315@wiliam.alcove-int>
In-Reply-To: <20001218112529.B6315@wiliam.alcove-int>; from stelian.pop@alcove.fr on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:25:29AM +0100
On Mon, Dec 18 2000, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got this idea some time ago, thinking it would really be
> a neat thing...
>
> Basically, I would like to be able to use a cdwriter as a tape
> device, with software like dump(8) or tar(1). With /dev/tcdw
> as name (for example), I'd like to be able to do:
> mt -f /dev/tcdw rewind
> tar cvf /dev/tcdw /
> tar cvf /dev/tcdw /home
> mt -f /dev/tcdw rewind
> mt -f /dev/tcdw fsf 1
> tar xvf /dev/tcdw
> ...
>
> As someone said to me, this seems to exist on some other UNIX
> system (don't recall if it was AIX or something else)... But
> I didn't find any work on Linux in this direction.
What you describe is actually one of the goals of the packet writing
driver. To do this reliably you need packet writing, I won't even
start to think about the headaches wihtout it...
> I'll start to work on this, probably by looking at the cdrecord
> low level code and porting it into kernel space.
Oh god no! You can do all this from user space.
--
* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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2000-12-18 10:25 Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer Stelian Pop
2000-12-18 18:04 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2000-12-19 9:45 ` Stelian Pop
2000-12-25 11:10 ` Jens Axboe
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