> The main reason is that, in order to do this you really need a high- > speed random access device. Tape drives are neither high speed (at > least > not the speed you really need) nor are they random access (they are > sequential access). > > Perhaps someone has written a tape driver that will end up calling me > a liar on this point, but in general, tape is not the right hardware > paradigm to start with to make a good file system. I have seen such a thing - a friend of mine (Gary Howland, sadly deceased) wrote such a driver. It worked well enough to play Doom off it. :) This was many years ago and was DOS only - as I recall he made a meta index at the front of the tape which allowed to to seek directly to the block where the required file was located. And no, I'm not calling you a liar. ;> > > K -- -- ttfn, Nick. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
