IIRC (it's over a years since I last looked at user-space iSCSI target code), iscsit supports pass-through mode so that running local tape target should not be a problem. Of course, whether such a mode was envisaged/designed for is a totally different question.
Regards, Andrey On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Milos Muzik <[email protected]> wrote: > The iSCSI target iscsitgtd does not support tape device as a backing store. > Though iscsitadm has a parameter '--type tape', it is intended for a tape > emulation (virtual tape). The only possible backing stores are files and disk > devices. > Look at bug ID 6783745 for reference. > Regards, > Milos > > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> I don't even know if that _should_ work, and this probably won't make it >> work if it won't. But I think I'd prefer /dev/rmt/0n (non-rewind on close), >> so that any such special behavior would be left up to the client. > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
