Am 11.09.2012 20:45, schrieb Dan Langille: > On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> because of that all modern disks can used by adresses instead of >> c/t/s is it possible to use hard disk drives directly without >> having filesystems? >> >> I mean to use an disk drive in the same manner an tape drive can be >> used by bacula. > > > Why would you want to do that? > > WIth all the advantages that file systems have, why go raw? Which advantage?
No fdisk, no mkfs, no mount, no umount, no fsck. Buy and disk, put the disk in the usb-hotplug-station, label the disk with bacula, use the disk in the same way an tape will be used, only faster and with seeking by random access ;-) So why not use disk drives in a direct way, just when the drive is hot pluggable eg. usb drives/cards. At the moment I'm checking mhVTL but this is more complex than I think it must. So this is not really an opinion. MfG... Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
