Re: RAIT device driver feasibility

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 12:40:11 EST


On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 17:09, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> > Why kernel space - why not a user space shared library you can add to
> > other tape apps?
>
> A shared library which would override read(), write() in the program ? Why not...
>
> But do you think you can chain/bounce, ioctl(), read(), writes from a char
> driver to another ?

I was thinking more of an easy to use shared library and adapting the
various tape archiving apps to be able to use it, not emulation

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