From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 7 23:27:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.232.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A4C37B76F; Sun, 7 May 2000 23:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@ugly.prth.tensor.pgs.com) Received: from bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.1]) by bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02417; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:24:42 +0800 (WST) Received: from prth.pgs.com (IDENT:root@ugly [157.147.225.240]) by bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02181; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:27:01 +0800 (WST) Received: from ugly (IDENT:shocking@localhost.prth.tensor.pgs.com [127.0.0.1]) by prth.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03183; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:27:01 +0800 Message-Id: <200005080627.OAA03183@prth.pgs.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: msmith@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:27:01 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Pyramid series of machines used to have block tape devices, such that one was able to boot a repair kernel and ro root fs off the 1600bpi reel-to-reel deck. Not unaturally, one was discouraged from doing a recursive find on that fs. Stephen (who used to have thoughts of doing the same with his old QIC-150) -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message