On Wed, August 4, 2010 12:25, valrh...@gmail.com wrote:
> Actually, no. I could care less about incrementals, and multivolume
> handling. My purpose is to have occasional, long-term archival backup of
> big experimental data sets. The challenge is keeping everything organized,
> and readable several years later, where I only need to recall a small
> subset of what's on the tape. The idea that the tape has a browseable
> filesystem is therefore extremely useful in principle.
>
> Has anyone actually tried this with OpenSolaris? The LTFS websites I've
> seen only talk about Mac and Linux support, but if it's supported on
> Linux, in principle the (open-source?) drivers should be portable, no?
I can understand the desire and convenience of a browsable file system,
but I'd trust the long-term accessibility of the (POSIX) tar format more
than most other things. Perhaps have one tape with tar, and other with
this LTFS thing, so you have your bases covered (e.g., in case one tape is
damaged, or if LTFS is just a buzzword/fad).
I'm assuming you're referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System
If Linux and Mac (which can be considered a variant of FreeBSD) are
covered, then it should technically be possible to modify it to support
Solaris. I'm sure the authors of the software would be interested in
patches (assuming it's open-source).
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