From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 18:45:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27218 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:45:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27206 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA28077; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:22 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA15779; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:22 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981215131522.G15633@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour References: <199812141802.FAA09572@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812141802.FAA09572@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:02:05AM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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