[SunHELP] Tape question

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:37:48PM -0500, Vivas Inga, Yovana Mery wrote:
> hi, How can I share a tape by NFS to the clients?
> I did : "mount server:/dev/rmt/ /dev/rmt", but it didn't worked
> thanks for your help.

Tape drives don't support random access, so they don't have a filesystem.
Therefore, you cannot access them via VFS; all interaction with a tape
occurs at the block device interface.

What you probably want to use is the machine:device argument to ufsdump's
'f' flag, or tar or cpio and rsh.

Regards,

Nick Dronen