Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 17:02:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 17:47:16 MDT." <200005072347.RAA74126@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <20000508085337.C61488@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: > : FILES > : /dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface > : > : There used to be a block interface for the 'mt' driver, so the drives > : got names like /dev/mt8 and /dev/rmt8. I think we need to get rid of > : the 'r', like we did with disks. > > No. 'r' means 'rewind' while 'nr' means no rewind. The r's should > stay. I don't think that FreeBSD ever had a /dev/mt8, but I could be > wrong about that. I know I've always used /dev/rst0 or /dev/rsa0 for > my backup needs. That's what I thought too, but I think the historians have us outflanked on this one. The only real issue now is POLA. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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