This post came to my attention recently:  
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-February/006581.html

In short: "The primary focus of these changes is to modernize FreeBSD's
tape infrastructure so that we can take advantage of some of the
features of modern tape drives and allow support for LTFS."

I don't know enough about these device to gauge the affects on the project.

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/






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