From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 6 15:31:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7A537B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 14aQvP-0002wf-00; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 00:31:27 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f26N1Wu41672 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 00:01:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <983q8c$18lv$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <983i3i$r3m$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Kargl wrote: > The "r" in tape device names has traditionally meant "r"ewind. No. We've been over this before. If you check the old 4.xBSD releases, the 'r' clearly means "raw device". Once upon a time there were tape block devices. > The rewind and non-rewind tape device names were changed under > devfs from rsa0 and nrsa0 to sa0 and nsa0, (which IMHO > violates POLA). They were changed in MAKEDEV long before that. MAKEDEV also provides 'r' names for compatibility. devfs simply did away with those compat links. For all kinds of devices, not only the tape drives. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message