From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: The dev-3.3.1-1.i386.rpm owns only rewinding osst onstream tape devices. In practice, the non-rewinding devices are more important. If you want to limit the number of entries in /dev, get rid of the osst[0-3][alm] devices, because while these modes in theory exist, they don't do anyting useful for normal users (as the osst kernel driver maintainer, I should know...). So please add /dev/nosst[0-3] to the dev rpm for the next redhat release. By the way, I report this against MAKEDEV because the dev rpm itself is not on the list of components! Thanks, Willem Riede. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -ql dev | grep osst 2. 3. Actual Results: /dev/osst0 /dev/osst0a /dev/osst0l /dev/osst0m /dev/osst1 /dev/osst1a /dev/osst1l /dev/osst1m /dev/osst2 /dev/osst2a /dev/osst2l /dev/osst2m /dev/osst3 /dev/osst3a /dev/osst3l /dev/osst3m Expected Results: /dev/osst0 /dev/osst1 /dev/osst2 /dev/osst3 /dev/nosst0 /dev/nosst1 /dev/nosst2 /dev/nosst3 Additional info: This was reported as bug 57900 against RH 7.2 and 65742 against 7.3
Fixing for 3.3.1-2.
Fix confirmed with dev-3.3.1-2.