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Date:      Mon, 08 May 2000 12:51:52 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 
Message-ID:  <20000508195152.754C01CE3@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>  of "Mon, 08 May 2000 12:40:31 PDT." <20000508124031.C51871@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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"David O'Brien" wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:32:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > We should just stop arguing about what it has ment historically and
> > say that "rsa0" is the rewind device and the "nrsa0" is the non-rewind
> > device and not worry about renaming of the device entries.
> 
> Nope.  If "r" is raw then it must die like the rest of the "r" devices
> since all devices are raw now. 

Our block buffered tape devices and the B_TAPE flag died *long* ago.

"r" was to distinguish raw vs. block.  There is now no distinction so IMHO
we should use 'devname' not 'rdevname' by default.  But I still think we
should create both /dev nodes (r and non-r) for some time, but both as
character devices.

Cheers,
-Peter




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