From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 4 00:23:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA11531 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 00:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA11522 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 00:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA06690 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:20:41 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03921 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:20:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA09769 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:05:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603040805.JAA09769@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /etc/netstart and NFS /usr To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:05:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603012119.NAA24288@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 1, 96 01:19:46 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Traina wrote: > However, I had a "interesting" problem last night, and found that > having a standalone version of "mt(1)" very very very important > (thank god for /stand). When i've merged the functionality of the old st(8) program into mt(1), i've been asking this list about this. Funny, no response. People using a tape drive that is correctly supported by the driver, and who use only dump(8) to backup their files might not need it, but all other ones will love it. (The reason: correctly detected drives will operate with the right blocksize out of the box, and restore has an option to advance the tape to any tape file.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)