On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:45:35 +0000 Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
If LTFS allows a raid-like solution over multiple tapes :-) it'll be similar to technology that was available long ago with tape libraries.
Okay, it needed fancy robotic self-loading tapes, but I'm sure I worked with it on a Perkin-Elmer (or was it UniVac) mainframe back in the 80s. Files that weren't accessed for a while were shuffled off to tape, and when you tried to access them they were retrieved.
GEORGE 3 could do that sort of thing in the early 70s. No need for fancy tape machines - it just printed instructions on the console to tell the operator to load whichever tape it required on whichever drive it could afford to make free. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org