Standards Update, IEEE 1003.1: System services interface

[david paul hoyt]

From:  david paul hoyt <YZE6041 at vx.acs.umn.edu>

>                                   With a properly designed ANSI tape
> subsystem, it is easy enough to have tar, and cpio (and even
> dump/restore) use ANSI labeled tapes, and it can be totally transparent
> to the user.

  And better yet, we'll have a standard way of dealing with multi-volumne
tapes.  It's hard enough to backup your own multi-gigabyte disk system, let
alone send large databases to other (potentially non-unix) systems.

david | dhoyt at vx.acs.umn.edu | dhoyt at umnacvx

Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 89