Hello Radek,
Yes, I would like to see lin_tape support, and though I vaguely remember something about a lin_tape patch, there are a number of things necessary to get a patch accepted:
1. I must be able to get a signed CAA (copyright assignment agreement). A number of people who send patches never follow through with the CAA. (for those who have, many thanks!)
2. The patch must put the code into a new driver that can be loaded in place of the current tape driver.
3. The patch must follow our programming guidelines or not be too far from it (I can always fix a few minor things).
Best regards,
Kern
On 10/29/19 1:57 PM, Radosław
Korzeniewski wrote:
Hello,
wt., 22 paź 2019 o 10:46 Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> napisał(a):
(...) so this would leave
either a community submission, or Bacula Systems to implement it.
I think the Community can prepare and test the required code as Enterprise clients do not want to participate in such development. I have a two BEE customers which just simply drop lin_tape drive when they got info it is not supported under Bacula and switch to plain st.
So, unless Bacula Systems decide to make an investment which could never payoff the Community should handle this. AFAIR on this list should be a patch prepared by some community developer which add support for lin_tape driver to Bacula. Unfortunate the patch was rejected by Kern at that time. I think we can use this patch and port it to the current Bacula version source code and allow a broad Community users to test this. We can add a compile time parameter which will simply enable this support and mark it extremely experimental.
What do you think about it?--
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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