From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 31 13:45:41 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 13:45:40 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.state.me.us (mailhub.state.me.us [141.114.122.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F87837B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:45:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from katahdin.bmv.state.me.us by mailhub.state.me.us with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:37:57 -0500 Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by katahdin.bmv.state.me.us (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id QAA23730 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:45:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:45:38 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nrsa0 v nsa0 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: darren@katahdin.bmv.state.me.us Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the functional difference between these devices? "man 4 sa" (under 4.2-stable) indeicates nsa0 is the "no rewind on close" name for the device but I've found it to be essentially "broken" when used with dump. ie "dump 0uaf /dev/nsa0 /" always dies near the end while "dump 0uaf /dev/nrsa0 /" functions as expected. nrsa0 isn't mentioned in the man page but can be found mentioned on the mailing lists and on a few web sites. (this is with an HP SureStore 6000 4mm dat though I'm not sure thats at issue here, my backups are funtional using nrsa0/rsa0, I'm mainly curious as to the difference) ________________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@bmv.state.me.us darren.henderson@state.me.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message