LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs

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Reference implementation of the LTFS format Spec for stand alone tape drive

Stars: 352
Forks: 110
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 70
Avg merge: 2h 50m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Jul 29, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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70 open issues indexed

How should upper-layer applications handle permanent write errors and extent cleanup? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#647 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
TANDBERG LTO-6 HH is not detected and empty cartridge cannot be formated. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#645 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Optional container images for building and running LTFS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#643 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Format fails on HP LTO-6 6250 with Adaptec HBA Open

H/W issue HBA Report Investigating

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#640 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Quantum Half Height Failure - I probably will submit a patch soon Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#638 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Releases (.tar.gz and .zip) miss the uthash_submodule files Open

Investigating

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#629 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Build Repositories need to remove icu-config dummy after configure.ac fix Open

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#628 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Should this implementation enforce ltfs hash xattr format and names Open

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#616 · 2 assignees · Opened Jun 13, 2026
ltfs_ordered_copy gives "object of type 'NoneType' has no len()" when copying single file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#598 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2026
libxml2 2.12.x compatibility issue (found on Almalinux 10.x) Open

Investigating Security Issue Under discussion

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#595 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2026
silent data corruption on ARM64? Open

bug

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#591 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2026
will "low space" warning corrupt data? Open

Investigating

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#582 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Add a .clang-format Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#579 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 26, 2026
Code of conduct Open

Under discussion

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#577 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 4 assignees · Opened Mar 24, 2026
make fails on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20260209 Open

bug Investigating

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#571 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 13, 2026
Risks of using --enable-buggy-ifs Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#565 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2026
PR key as option? Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#563 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Question about /dev/sg vs /dev/st vs /dev/sch0 Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#556 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 16, 2025
Start_block misalignment caused by SIGSTOP/SIGCONT Open

enhancement

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#554 · 10 comments · 4 assignees · Opened Nov 5, 2025
ltfs_ordered_copy QoL features (type annotations, etc.) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#548 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2025
ltfs returns 0 even on failed mount (or other fuse errors) Open

bug

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#541 · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 24, 2025
Recover from tape without partition label? Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#537 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2025
ltfs file backend does not work with a format and type different from LTO5 Open

enhancement

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#535 · 12 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2025
Debian one-line apt dependency install Open

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#533 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 15, 2025
Windows Annex K. Function Integration Open

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#531 · 7 comments · 7 assignees · Opened Jul 2, 2025
Document loop device support Open

question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#530 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2025
Can't mount LTFS tape with HBA in Thunderbolt PCIe Enclosure Open

Investigating

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#528 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2025
LTFS tapes won't mount again Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#527 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2025
Branch and Naming Conventions Open

Under discussion

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#526 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · 10 assignees · Opened May 29, 2025
Terminal Error launching LTFS ordered copy Open

bug

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#522 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 17, 2025
WOW! this works pretty nice :D Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#519 · 15 comments · Opened May 6, 2025
Suggestion for possible mitigation of the tape corruption problem in #446 Open

Investigating

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#518 · 3 comments · Opened May 3, 2025
ltfs loops with 'LTFS30216W Length mismatch is detected.' Open

Investigating

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#517 · 1 comment · Opened May 2, 2025
Add the description of `--sort-files` option to the man pages of `ltfs_ordered_copy` Open

doc

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#513 · Opened Apr 22, 2025
Windows support Open

enhancement

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#511 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 21, 2025
LTO-4 support question Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#506 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
LTO-9 READ_ATTRIBUTE and LOG_SENSE timeout values are too small Open

Investigating

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#505 · 15 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Build Failed in openSUSE Tumbleweed Open

enhancement Hacktoberfest help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#499 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 4, 2025
Encryption Function Error? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#498 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2025
io_uring support Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#468 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2024
Build Failure: FUSE API error and deprecated pthread_yield in CentOS-Stream-9-latest-x86_64-dvd1.iso Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#465 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2024
Installation instructions for Debian 12 (bookworm) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#464 · 2 comments · Opened May 28, 2024
Drop RHEL7 and add RHEL9 support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#456 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 17, 2024
FS2.5: Supporting recovery using incremental index Open

FS2.5

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#453 · 1 assignee · Opened May 13, 2024
Failing to run in Ubuntu 22.04 after make install because of libltfs.so.0 not being found Open

doc good first issue Hacktoberfest help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#440 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2024
Have the total file size of a volume into `struct ltfs_index` Open

enhancement

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#416 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Memory leak at `tape_read_attr()` Open

bug

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#414 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Encountered a build error: "unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'" on Fedora 37 Open

Hacktoberfest help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#394 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 12, 2023
Devuan Chimaera Build Errors and Warnings Open

Hacktoberfest help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#393 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 11, 2023
ltfs_ordered_copy not honoring folder attr Open

Under discussion

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs#392 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 3, 2023

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