[HEADSUP] changes to cam_get_device() and cam_open_device()

Matthew Jacob mj at feral.com
Fri Oct 8 15:48:31 UTC 2010



The 'eject on close' variant is a hangover from older stuff. I don't think it is much used. I believe packages like bacula and amanda just use mtio ioctls directly on the no-rewind device (haven't worked on tape in a long time, so my recollection is quite stale).

I think as long as no-rewind cases are covered, whatever you do that simplifies things will be  a good thing.

> Removing special support for them in cam_get_device() and cam_open_device() might
> still be a good idea.  Not sure.
> I say this because sa(4) also has eject-on-close variation ("/dev/esaN"), but
> there is no special support for those.
>
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