From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 7 14:47:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83EC37BF26; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11982; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005072156.OAA11982@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 10:28:48 PDT." <20000507102848.A35845@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 14:56:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 04:39:16PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > OpenBSD only changed "rmt" to "rst" ("rsa" for us) > > Just "sa" for us -- "sa" is now a raw device and "rFOO" use is > depreciated. We had this argument the other day, and you clearly didn't understand. We have three devices for each tape drive: rsaX, ersaX and nrsaX. The 'r' prefix for tape devices is entirely unrelated to the 'r' prefix for disk devices. Please read the sa(4) manpage prior to its' corruption by a well-meaning but entirely ignorant committer. (Fixed, btw.) -- \\ 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message