Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:59:42 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nrsa0 v nsa0 Message-ID: <92okpu$253a$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <Pine.A41.4.21.0012311631240.37310-100000@katahdin.bmv.state.me.us>
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Darren Henderson <darren@bmv.state.me.us> wrote: > What is the functional difference between these devices? None. MAKEDEV creates them as hardlinks. The 'r' stands for "raw device", i.e. character rather than block device. Since FreeBSD has gotten rid of block devices entirely, it was decided to drop the 'r's. /dev/nrsa0 is only retained for backwards compatibility and will disappear eventually. > "dump 0uaf /dev/nsa0 /" always dies near the end while > "dump 0uaf /dev/nrsa0 /" functions as expected. Two possibilities: - You have non-standard device nodes there. Compare with "ls -l". - Coincidence. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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