Re:Early Linux filesystem reliability
by Maakuth on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:59AM
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Ah, that's interesting to know. Was the development system also RISC/OS, or did some UNIX variant do this as well? I thought in UNIX, tape was always used with utilities such as tar, not mounted as a part of filesystem. That should of course be possible, for the patient at least :).
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It was definitely possible, and some of us remember the joys of spooling data from tape before we could use it. :)
And if I recall, this was a built-in of the tape-drive itself, which could be used on multiple different systems, and so the triple-sync being used to rewind wasn't Risc/OS specific; I remember using the same tape-deck later on Linux and Irix machines, same ol' sync command worked every time.
I can still hear the whirr in my mind ..