This is a common use for tape, which can via tools like HPSS have a couple petab...

		stonogo 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure This is a common use for tape, which can via tools like HPSS have a couple petabytes of disk in front of it, and present the whole archive in a single POSIX filesystem namespace, handling data migration transparently and making sure hot data is kept on low-latency storage.

Yeah, it was like this (except not petabytes).