Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs

[Steven Lembark <lembark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

-- "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> It's the backup program.  I created the symlink
>
> ln -s /dev/sg/c1b0t1u0 /dev/auto_changer0
Look at the devfsd.conf entry for, say, "cdrom" and
just change the 3 event lines from "tape" to
"auto_changer0" and "tapes/0/mt" to "sg/c1b0tiu0".

Filesystem operatins behave differently in /dev than
you are used to (or /proc for that matter) because the
filesystem are not on the disk they are in kernel memory
where persistent soft links don't really mean anything.
It is a semantic issue, not syntax.



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