[ANNOUNCE] ftape-3.04d

Claus-Justus Heine (claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de)
25 Nov 1997 16:57:47 +0100


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I'm happy to announce the availability of ftape-3.04d

Version 3.04d merely is a bug fix release and doesn't add new features
to ftape-3.04.

The only changes since 3.04c are the correction of a typo (#elsif ->
#elif) and a bug fix where zft_reset_position() needs to be called
when overwriting tapes containing archives created with older
(i.e. 2.08) versions of ftape.

What it is
==========

ftape is a floppy tape device driver for Linux.

ftape-3.x developed as the re-unification of the stock ftape-2.x driver
written by Bas Laarhoven and the enhancements/modifications I had
implemented in a separate development tree called "zftape".

ftape-3.04d is implemented as a stack of two kernel modules:

ftape.o - hardware driver (MANDATORY)
zftape.o - VFS front-end (MANDATORY)
zft-compressor.o - user-transparent on the fly compression (OPTIONAL)

A set of kernel patches to upgrade the 2.0.32 and 2.1.65 kernels to
ftape-3.04d are available from

http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/

Cheers

Claus

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  Claus-Justus Heine             
  claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de
  http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus

PGP Public Key: http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/claus-public-key.asc

Ftape - the Linux Floppy Tape Project WWW : http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape Mailing-list: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu

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