Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 22:20:14 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <20358.957817214@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 14:16:38 MDT." <200005082016.OAA79437@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200005082016.OAA79437@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <20000508124031.C51871@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: >: 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. > >No. I disagree. It doesn't have to die. If all that we're doing is >replacing /dev/rsa0 and /dev/nrsa0 with /dev/sa0 and /dev/nsa0 then we >break all the backup scripts in the world. We have not yet stopped providing compatibility for disks, and I don't see why we should for tape either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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