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.

-tih
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