Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 23.11.2007 18:44:28:
> Hi, > > I am looking into setting up a SLES10 image with an IBM 3494 tape library and > 3-3592 tape drives. > > It looks like I have a choice of using either the IBM s390x Linux Tape Driver > or the Lintape s390x Linux Tape Driver. > > Is there a major difference between the two? I see that the Lintape is > opensource and the IBMTape is closed. As well as the kernel level, with > Lintape supporting a more updated kernel. > In your case these are the SCSI/ZFCP drivers for IBM tapes. (Note to Mark: yes this one was an OCO, even after we got rid of the 3590 channel attached tape driver ;-)). Lintape is the new approach to have the driver open source. More or less they should be the same and IBMtape might not get much further development. > Looking at the readme files, they appear to behave similarly. > Is there any reason (stability,etc) why I should NOT go with Lintape? > I only had a brief experience with it and that was a little time ago. At this time the new driver had a bit of problems with udev integration (if I remember correctly it didn't create the correct kobjects but required a daemon to create the nodes). But that might be resolved by now. Stefan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
