19 Nov
2017
19 Nov
'17
11:40 p.m.
You can’t mount a regular 9 track or many other types because they weren’t block
replaceable. Once you wrote the superblock the second time, you lost the rest of the
filesystem.
On Nov 19, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
You could actually mkfs a DECtape and mount it
but the system would stall while rewinding to write the superblock.
The early Sun boxes used to hang when rewinding the cartridge tape, because the
controller didn't release the Multibus; the stingy Lionel Singer used to sell the
3/50 as cheap servers...
And you haven't lived until just for fun you put a file system onto a 9-track tape
and ran FSCK on it.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."