Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour Message-ID: <19981215131522.G15633@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812141802.FAA09572@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:02:05AM %2B1100 References: <199812141802.FAA09572@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Tuesday, 15 December 1998 at 5:02:05 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >> Down the road a little bit would be: >> >>>> untangling the minor device as behaviour selector so that >> ioctl's would not have to be used to select compression. > > This should be controversial :-). Compression is another type of > behaviour. Is this an argument for or against the change? I'm for the change, anyway. Currently it's not possible to tell a backup utility to write in compressed or uncompressed mode. If I have different devices, I can do this. It's been this way in ever other UNIX I've used. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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