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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.

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