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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
