Diego Zuccato <[email protected]> writes: > 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?
vtape do rely on a Unix file system, it needs a directory and a couple of sub-directory per vtape. Olivier --
