From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 31 17:30:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 17:30:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C822237B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 14Ctnv-0008If-00; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 02:30:27 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f010xgU71686 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 01:59:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: nrsa0 v nsa0 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <92okpu$253a$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: daemon@mips.inka.de Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Henderson wrote: > What is the functional difference between these devices? None. MAKEDEV creates them as hardlinks. The 'r' stands for "raw device", i.e. character rather than block device. Since FreeBSD has gotten rid of block devices entirely, it was decided to drop the 'r's. /dev/nrsa0 is only retained for backwards compatibility and will disappear eventually. > "dump 0uaf /dev/nsa0 /" always dies near the end while > "dump 0uaf /dev/nrsa0 /" functions as expected. Two possibilities: - You have non-standard device nodes there. Compare with "ls -l". - Coincidence. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message