From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 13:31: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA2F37B40D for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 15uJoe-0007DN-00; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:30:56 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IKMOw76255 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:22:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Quantum 7000 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <9qndm0$2a2p$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <99A83EE8C34AD311809C009027936117144B49@dell-serv-1.phoenixmedical.co.uk> <15310.50283.575252.497988@audio.gfoster.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Glen Foster wrote: > Tape devices customarily have "r" prepended to their names. No. That 'r' means "raw device" (= character device), as opposed to a block device. Tape block devices just haven't been supported in BSD for the last two decades or so. When FreeBSD got rid of the block device concept altogether, the plain device names were turned into character devices, and the corresponding 'r' device nodes have been preserved as simple compatibility links in the 4.x branch. In 5.0-CURRENT they are finally gone. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message