IMFS: yet another trouble.

Rosimildo da Silva rdasilva at connecttel.com
Fri Dec 1 14:44:39 UTC 2000


> Rosimildo da Silva wrote:
> 
> Well, there's always the remote mag-tape protocol.  Although the
> following quote from the RMT manual page should be kept in mind.....
> 
>     BUGS
>        People should be discouraged from using this for a remote
>        file access protocol.
> 

Thanks Eric for the info.

I understand why. There are already too many mechanisms for
file access ( ftp, tftp, ... ).

But, such a thing could be useful for development, testing
of the high level file systems, without a need of a physical
device.

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