On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Christian Weisgerber
wrote:
> This removes support for tape BLOCK devices from the kernel.
>
> (Since people were confused: Everything you typically do with tapes,
> like dump/restore, tar, mt, etc. uses character devices and is not
> affected by this. You would o
This removes support for tape BLOCK devices from the kernel.
(Since people were confused: Everything you typically do with tapes,
like dump/restore, tar, mt, etc. uses character devices and is not
affected by this. You would only use a block device to mount(8) a
tape.)
Anything I missed? OK?
