From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 17:24: 4 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715F037BAF8; Sun, 7 May 2000 17:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA42095; Sun, 7 May 2000 18:23:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA74329; Sun, 7 May 2000 18:23:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Cc: Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 17:02:31 PDT." <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:23:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : > 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. On the 4.2BSD vax we had back in school, it was /dev/rmt8 and /dev/nrmt8. R stood for rewind, and has for a very long time. The SunOS 3.5 machine behaved exactly the same way. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message