Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005071644150.21956-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200005072352.QAA12398@mass.cdrom.com>
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Umm, I hate to rain on yer shoes, but historically tapes for *BSD and sundry have been 'r' for 'raw' and 'nr' for 'no rewind, raw'. But, whatever.... So, all of this is fine, one way or the other, but I sure would like to see folks working on making the Alpha boot loader read /boot/loader.conf like i386 long before we fart around changing tape device names. To give an example of "real problems to solve" as opposed to "side issues that we really ought not waste any more time on". On Sun, 7 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 14:47:07 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > msmith 2000/05/07 14:47:07 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > share/man/man4 sa.4 > > > Log: > > > For tape devices, 'r' means REWIND, not RAW. > > > > So /dev/nrsa0 is the no rewind rewind drive? > > R = Rewind, NR = No Rewind. > > > >From 4.4BSD: > > > > 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. > > *shrug* Obviously, I think that violates POLA (it'd certainly A me), but > if there's consensus on this it should probably be done properly > (changing the manpage and not changing MAKEDEV gave me to assume that > there was no consensus). > > -- > \\ 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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