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LinearTapeFileSystem / ltfs

Reference implementation of the LTFS format Spec for stand alone tape drive
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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sg take backend - why #420

Closed RlckAstley closed 1 year ago

RlckAstley commented 1 year ago

I use st, not sg. Not sure what's going on and can't find documentation

piste-jp commented 1 year ago

Basically, the st driver is an adapter that user can access to tape device with the POSIX file system call, like open(), close(), write(), read(), etc..

On the other hand, LTFS has really fine grained error handling against tape device, the basic command set of st is not goos for this fine grained error handling and sg device and low level SCSI command is much nicer than st command set.

piste-jp commented 1 year ago

Close because no activities from 8/14.