seek on raw magtape

[Barry Shein]

>From: Chris Torek <chris%umcp-cs.uucp at BRL.ARPA>
>Of course, if you wanted to kludge up your Unix kernel, you could
>make the block tape device use large interrecord gaps, and then you
>could even make a file system on tape.  (Did this once work?  It
>does not in 4.[23]BSD.)			^^^

>From the SIXTH edition UPM (MOUNT(VIII))

"...the optional last arg [-r] indicates that the file is to be
mounted read-only. Physically write-protected and magnetic tape file
systems must be mounted this way or errors will occur when access
times are updated..."

Knew that would come in handy one day...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University