> On Mar 2, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 2, 2015, at 6:39 AM, Alan Brown <a.brown AT ucl.ac DOT uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On 14/02/15 23:26, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> As far as I can tell ltfs support on linux sits on top of the standard mt-st 
>> stuff as a userspace (fuse) filesystem
>> 
>> I'd hope it's much the same with BSD. Removing the standard interface would 
>> be counterproductive overall
> 
> I don't know the details.  The code has been committed to FreeBSD HEAD.  I 
> installed that on my test system here.
> I have run some tar tests and the code passes the basic btape test.  Next 
> step is Bacula jobs.
> 
> Does this confirm that the standard interface remains?

I asked the developer:  
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-March/006619.html

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/






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