Any project on Virtual Tape DRIVER?

macarthor · 10-10-2005, 03:25 AM

Hi all,

I'm looking for an open source DRIVER which can:

1. Emulate the operations of tape device;

2. Redirect the write/read operations of the virtual tape device (say, /dev/vtape) on to a TAR image file (say, image.tar), so the "tar cvf" command will actually operate on the image.tar file.

I'm earnest to find such a DRIVER. Please help.

It MUST be a DRIVER, so projects using C library functions are not suitalbe, say, vtapeutils.

And, DRIVERs which act like the above Point 2 are all welcomed.

Thanks!!!

macarthor · 10-10-2005, 07:12 PM

Please help~~~

sewer_monkey · 10-13-2005, 02:20 AM

Why a driver exactly? The dump command can write its output to a file (just read the man page for dump).

macarthor · 10-13-2005, 10:49 PM

thx for your advice.

my project needs a VIRTUAL tape DRIVER which acts as what i said above.

macarthor · 10-18-2005, 02:12 AM

what shall i do if i wanna, in kernel-mode drivers, access an on-disk file?