> Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:
> 
> > By the way: I never EVER knew of a re-writable FS on tape, not even
> > with individual blocks, [...]
> 
> DEC did it with the old DECtapes, on PDP-11s.  That was a very simple
> file system, of course.  Later, VAX/VMS at least pretended to have a
> re-writable file system you could use on 9-track tapes, but that may
> very well have been faked in software.
> 
I've used filesystem tapes under 4.2BSD (with FFS on them), but I
have yet to fix the block support for NetBSD to be able to use 
it on for example TU78 :-)

BTW the console TU58 on VAX 11/750 uses a filesystem on them, and
newfs:ing them and mounting them works fine (under NetBSD).

-- Ragge