ittai@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) (09/13/90)
Over the past four years we have migrated from TOPS-20 to VMS to UNIX. When we moved from TOPS to VMS we lost the ability to have a queue for tape-mount requests. And now, as we move from VMS to UNIX, we lose the ability to have users allocate a tape-drive for the duration of a session. I am looking for a daemon/utility to let us do both. In other words, the daemon would have a lock on the tape-drive device and users could queue up to "mount" the tape-drive. The user would be given sole access to the drive until he/she "dismounts" it. Seems rather obvious, and someone must have done this somewhere along the line. It would be even nicer if this were available for a distributed environment using Sun RPC, and down the road, OSF DCE. Thanx, -Ittai