Filesystems on tape and Videotapeing

[markb at denali]

In article <8811290154.aa16495 at SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, XBR2D96D at DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobi der Rechnerschrat) writes:
> Hello Netlanders,
> 
>   I've got two problems:
> 
> 1) This was sent by a colleague of mine some weeks ago and never
>    answered. We want to create a filesystem on the 1/4" cartridge
>    tape and mount it into our system (3130 or 4D/70G). The questions
>    are: a) is it possible at all? and
>         b) if (answer_a == yes) How to do it ???
> Regards
> Martin Knoblauch
> 
> TH-Darmstadt
> Dept. Physical Chemistry 1
> Petersenstrasse 20
> D-6100 Darmstadt
> West-Germany
> 
> BITNET: <XBR2D96D at DDATHD21>


Just reading the man page for mounting a tape as a filesystem.  Have not
actually tried this myself, but know of no reason why this should not 
work.  By the way, here is an excerpt that may help:

-r	Mount the specified filesystem read-only.  This is shorthand for:

		mount -o ro fsname dir

	Physically write-protected and magnetic tape filesys-	
	tms must be mounted read-only, or errors occur when
	access times are updated, whether or not any explicit
	write is attempted.

					markb

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