From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 16:53:55 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6E537B539; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12447; Sun, 7 May 2000 17:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 17:47:16 MDT." <200005072347.RAA74126@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 17:02:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <20000508085337.C61488@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: > : FILES > : /dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface > : > : There used to be a block interface for the 'mt' driver, so the drives > : got names like /dev/mt8 and /dev/rmt8. I think we need to get rid of > : the 'r', like we did with disks. > > No. 'r' means 'rewind' while 'nr' means no rewind. The r's should > stay. I don't think that FreeBSD ever had a /dev/mt8, but I could be > wrong about that. I know I've always used /dev/rst0 or /dev/rsa0 for > my backup needs. That's what I thought too, but I think the historians have us outflanked on this one. The only real issue now is POLA. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message