[fock]

and there have been continous ports since then: https://github.com/Godzil/ftape/tree/master - note the caveats which apparently all disappeared here...

[kelnos]

Looks like that hasn't been updated in 6 years, and only supports the 2.6.x kernel.

I doubt it would have been significantly easier to start the porting effort from that vs. the original 2.4.x source.

[fock]

and of course this didn't take into account you posted that, because I got directed straight here by AI!