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.
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