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amiaopensource / ltopers

Bash scripts to manage LTO cartridges with LTFS
https://github.com/amiaopensource/ltopers
MIT License
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remove ltfs_ldun #186

Closed retokromer closed 6 years ago

retokromer commented 6 years ago

Analogue to https://github.com/amiaopensource/ltopers/pull/125.

dericed commented 6 years ago

I'd prefer to leave it as the check ensures it doesn't cause an issue for those without it. I've been nudging lto devs for a public version of this but haven't seen that yet.

retokromer commented 6 years ago

@dericed Should we then not revert https://github.com/amiaopensource/ltopers/commit/d885b76f90f7dbe96f72989ebe4c46b3446657b0 as well?

retokromer commented 6 years ago

I've been nudging lto devs for a public version of this but haven't seen that yet.

The vendors are not interested, because they wish to sell not only desks but especially library robots. All desks of generation 5, 6, 7 and 8 I have seen so far (IBM, HPE and Tandberg, as well as Asian clones) do actually support loading and unloading via software. If you wish to include here a source code, then you have to accept an illegally reverse engineered one. I’m afraid, I don’t know another existing solution. And with this piece of software you can then build quite cheaply your own library robot.

That said, in my opinion we should have the same strategy for both mountlto and formatlto.