magtape device naming conventions

[Doug Gwyn]

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..