From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 6 13:15:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B9937B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f26LI3G11355; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs In-Reply-To: <983i3i$r3m$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> "from Christian Weisgerber at Mar 6, 2001 08:42:26 pm" To: Christian Weisgerber Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:18:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Steve Kargl 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