Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812141848230.2563-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <19981215131522.G15633@freebie.lemis.com>
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> >> 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. You *can* enable/disable compression, and we could even make the change persistent across tape mounts, but the issue here is whether or not you also want to go and change the N different backup utilities to use the appropriate ioctl to select compression or not. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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