Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:26:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), msmith@FreeBSD.org (Mike Smith), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <200005080526.WAA23877@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200005072347.RAA74126@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "May 7, 2000 05:47:16 pm"
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> 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. Would you all just go read the damn 4.4 BSD manual page. It is correct, complete and accurate as to traditional BSD behavior. r = raw n = non-rewind nr = non-rewind, raw Block tape devices where raraely if ever used for anything, though some rare beast like DECtape which had block replaceable writes could pull some neat tricks using /dev/mt and careful coding. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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