Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:18:03 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs Message-ID: <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <983i3i$r3m$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> "from Christian Weisgerber at Mar 6, 2001 08:42:26 pm"
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Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > I haven't heard any screaming yet. Besides, this is -CURRENT. > devfs has also abandoned symlinks for 'r' disk devices. > The "r" in tape device names has traditionally meant "r"ewind. The "r" in disk names (such as rda0) meant a "r"aw device. Raw devices (or block devices) were removed from current. The rewind and non-rewind tape device names were changed under devfs from rsa0 and nrsa0 to sa0 and nsa0, (which IMHO violates POLA). I suspect we'll hear scream when 5.0 is released and early adopters start to have their backup scripts die. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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