From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 17:59:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1263C37B86A; Sun, 7 May 2000 17:59:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA90918; Sun, 7 May 2000 20:59:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200005080059.UAA90918@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 References: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 18:23:45 MDT." <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:59:28 -0400 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. > Yeah, but /dev/mt8 would also rewind. There were block tape devices on the 4.2 system I used to use, probably more for completeness rather than actual utility. /dev/rmt? was the raw version of /dev/mt? louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message