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Chapter 8: VFS Interface and Implementation Notes

This chapter contains (more or less) detailed implementation nodes for ftape-4.03 and list the various changes the file system interface of the ftape driver had to endure while being pushed from version to version.

Device description Devices provided by ftape-4.03
ftape-2x compatibility Compatibility with ftape-2.x
ftape-3x compatibility Compatibility with ftape-3.04d
ftape-402 compatibility Compatibility with ftape-4.02
File marks `End Of File' marks with ftape-4.03
Tape blocks Recording fixed length data blocks
Compression Builtin Compression
Ioctls The ioctl interface to ftape

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