magtape device naming conventions
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Tue Sep 23 12:23:12 AEST 1986
In article <3957 at brl-smoke.ARPA> Barry Shein <bzs at bu-cs.bu.EDU> writes:
> /dev/mt/1600r0 # rewind unit 0
> /dev/mt/6250n0 # no rewind unit 0
> /dev/rmt/1600r1 # rewind, raw, unit 1
Note that this is also amenable to
implementing a special "magtape file system"
via the filesystem switch (present in V8 & SVR3),
as opposed to trying to encode all this stuff
in minor device numbers..
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