Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:23:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 17:02:31 PDT." <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com>
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In message <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : > 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. On the 4.2BSD vax we had back in school, it was /dev/rmt8 and /dev/nrmt8. R stood for rewind, and has for a very long time. The SunOS 3.5 machine behaved exactly the same way. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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