Tape Drive queueing for Unix
Ittai Hershman
ittai at rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU
Thu Sep 13 13:22:31 AEST 1990
Over the past four years we have migrated from TOPS-20 to VMS to UNIX.
When we moved from TOPS to VMS we lost the ability to have a queue for
tape-mount requests. And now, as we move from VMS to UNIX, we lose
the ability to have users allocate a tape-drive for the duration of a
session.
I am looking for a daemon/utility to let us do both. In other words,
the daemon would have a lock on the tape-drive device and users could
queue up to "mount" the tape-drive. The user would be given sole
access to the drive until he/she "dismounts" it. Seems rather
obvious, and someone must have done this somewhere along the line. It
would be even nicer if this were available for a distributed
environment using Sun RPC, and down the road, OSF DCE.
Thanx,
-Ittai
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