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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:22 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com
Subject:   Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour
Message-ID:  <19981215131522.G15633@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812141802.FAA09572@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:02:05AM %2B1100
References:  <199812141802.FAA09572@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Tuesday, 15 December 1998 at  5:02:05 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> Down the road a little bit would be:
>>
>>>> untangling the minor device as behaviour selector so that
>>	ioctl's would not have to be used to select compression.
>
> This should be controversial :-).  Compression is another type of
> behaviour.

Is this an argument for or against the change?

I'm for the change, anyway.  Currently it's not possible to tell a
backup utility to write in compressed or uncompressed mode.  If I have
different devices, I can do this.  It's been this way in ever other
UNIX I've used.

Greg
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