Looking for PCI express SCSI diff card recommendations

[Kevin Bowling]

Ken,

Give this a try https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18841 - if Spectra has
any config or rc scripts or whatever that I should add send it my way.

Regards,
Kevin

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:50 AM Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:26:31 -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:10:43AM -0500, Ken Merry wrote:
> > > If you want to use LTFS on FreeBSD, I ported IBM???s LTFS to FreeBSD:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs <https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs>
> >
> > Any chance of that getting merged into the FreeBSD repo and becoming
> > officially supported?
>
> It would probably make the most sense to put it in the ports tree.  It is a
> FUSE-based filesystem, and therefore easily installable as a port.  Making
> it a port would also make it easier to keep up to date with IBM's
> development.  (It is under active development.)
>
> As far as putting it in the base system, I think it is something that will
> get used as a standalone filesystem fairly infrequently.  Very few people
> will have an IBM LTO-5 or newer drive / library.  And most people shelling
> out the money for any amount of tape are either going to run a backup
> package or archive package on it, not just LTFS by itself.
>
> So, with stock FreeBSD, you would most likely run Bacula or Amanda for
> backup usage.  I'm not sure if there are commercial backup packages with
> FreeBSD support.  If you want a commercial FreeBSD-based archive product
> that will manage your tape library and do a lot more:
>
> https://spectralogic.com/products/blackpearl/
>
> BlackPearl uses LTFS as its tape storage format, so that even if you want
> to switch to something else later on, you aren't "stuck" with a proprietary
> tape format.  It can also import other vendors' LTFS-formatted tapes,
> assuming they follow the standard...
>
> If someone would like to make a port out of LTFS, that's fine with me...
> (Just a little busy with other stuff right now, and I'm not a ports
> committer.)
>
> Ken
> --
> Kenneth Merry
> ken at FreeBSD.ORG
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