wyatt@cfa.UUCP (02/20/87)
> Wanted: filesystem emulator, part tape - part disk. > > Can such a thing run under vanilla Unix? What we > believe we want is to have an extra file system. For > example mounted as /arc. This extra filesystem would > use physical space both on disk and on tape. [...] > There are a host of things that such a device handler > "could" do, but basically making disk a 'buffer' between > machine and tape would be enough, whether it buffered > at block level or file level may not be all that important. This kind of thing is done (only under VMS, so far as I know) by various vendors' packages to run optical disks. I, for one, would love to see something similar for UNIX, but apparently standards are a huge problem still (both in the physical disk standards and in file system organization). If anyone has/is writing such an interface, let us know!! -- Bill UUCP: {seismo|ihnp4}!harvard!talcott!cfa!wyatt Wyatt ARPA: wyatt@cfa.harvard.edu (or) wyatt%cfa.UUCP@harvard.harvard.edu BITNET: wyatt@cfa2