On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:30 PM, James Woodward wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like an 
> sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really 
> explains that portion to me.


The FreeBSD tape driver uses different device names as shortcuts for the 
various different action-on-close semantics.  The most common are /dev/saN, 
which will rewind the tape when the device is closed, and /dev/nsaN, which does 
not rewind the tape when the device is closed.  (Think "n for non-rewinding.")  
If you want multiple files on a single tape, you will usually want to use 
/dev/nsaN.

See man sa(4) for details.

Cheers,

Paul.


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