Il 27/08/19 05:55, Olivier ha scritto:

> But a disk dedicated to vtapes should be doing a lot of sequetial
> accesses: once it has been formatted and the slots have been assigned,
> it is writting files the size of one Amanda's chunk. In fact, that would
> be worth a study: the disk usage for vtapes vs. normal disk usage.
That's the *perfect* use-case for SMR drives. But they'd need either no
filesystem (like tapes :) ) or a dedicated one.
Is it possible to use raw devices as vtapes?

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