From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 6 14: 9:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A18F37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA20679; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200103062209.OAA20679@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs In-Reply-To: <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from Steve Kargl at "Mar 6, 2001 01:18:03 pm" To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:09:34 -0800 (PST) Cc: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. That is incorrect. r is raw in both cases. n is used to designate non-rewind devices. Please read mtio(4) and sa(4). non-raw tape devices don't make since... they aren't random block addressable devices. > 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 > -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message