
148 EFS Systems on a Linux Base: Additional Topics
We later read the tape and printed (to SYSPRINT) the tape contents. The process was about
the same, except our tape file (/tmp/222222) now had a correct label and was immediately
accepted after we entered another
flexes> mount 560 /tmp/222222 command.
10.3 Tape resource options
Server files used by FakeTape are normal files in the server’s file systems. With a little
planning—for space and naming—a whole tape library can be emulated using inexpensive
server disks. A file (in the server file system) is equivalent to a tape volume. You can
compress these files, ftp them, write them on CD-ROMs, ...