Dave wrote: >Methinks the Right Thing To Do would be to add function to "mt" to allow it >to reserve a drive (eg, "mt reserve /dev/st0") when a application wants on, >and provide a release function when you're done with it (eg "mt release >/dev/st0"). That would be generic enough to handle most of the Intel cases >as well, but would suit us nicely(*).
Since its really a zSeries notion, it seems to me putting the assign/unassign in "insmod/delmod tape390" initialization somehow would be more appropriate. Also, the way the tapes have been implemented (by dev node), there is no mount involved. Mounts in linux don't really mount devices - they mount file systems. Regards, Jim Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs t/l 543-4021, 408-463-4021, [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Grace Happens ***
