From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 8 22:18:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9020137B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20746; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:18:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:18:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Steve Kargl Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs In-Reply-To: <200103060709.f2679OZ04542@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Steve Kargl wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > > What are the names of the tape devices under devfs? > > > > > > Should dump(8) use /dev/sa0 for the rewind device and > > > /dev/nsa0 for no rewind device? Should /etc/rc.devfs > > > create symlinks from rsa0 and nrsa0 for backwards compatibility? > > > > > > Can you give a hint as to which release you're trying this with? > > FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Mon Mar 5 10:40:22 PST 2001 > kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TROUTMASK > > > > Does rc.devfs mean anything at all with -current's devfs? I just changed the > > sa driver to create the correct aliases. > > > > Yes, I use it to set permissions on cd0 and cd0c during boot. > I could add "ln -sf /dev/nsa0 /dev/nrsa0" for backwards > compatibility. > > dump.8 and dump(8) both refer explicitly to nsa0 and nrsa0 whereas > sa0 and nsa0 are the actual device names in -current. Hrmm.. Didn't somebody just fix this? At any rate, by all means add whatever you think appropriate to rc.devfs. If you think the sa driver should create an alias for backward compatibility do so or let know. Frankly- I think given that this is 5.0 that 'compatibility' is not needed. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message