Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 19:57:44 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amd (and CD-ROM's) Message-ID: <9606152357.AA26925@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19382.834874550@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <9606151626.AA24567@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <19382.834874550@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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<<On Sat, 15 Jun 1996 22:35:50 +0100, "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > It should be tought how to mount any device as a non UFS or NFS > filesystem, such as /dev/fd0 as MSDOS. What if the floppy in /dev/fd0 is not an MSDOS floppy? amd currently doesn't have any notion of binding devices to filesystem types---that's the job of the system administrator writing the map file---and I would object strongly if this were broken. > There is no reason just to > special case CD9660 devices. I never said anything about devices. I said it should know how to mount CD9660 /filesystems/. There is no earthly reason (except that nobody has written the fifteen lines of code to do it) why one should not be able to simply write `type:=cd9660' in one's map file and be done with it. > It would be nice to handle generic > removable media actually, so you can run Iomega Zip & so on under > AMD. It already does, perfectly well thank you very much, by not doing anything at all. You write a map file describing what to mount and where, and it does the appropriate thing. That is its only job. It is not intended to sit there and buzz the drive every thirty seconds to see if you've stuck something in there, like SGI's Workspace does; if you want a program to do that, go write one. It doesn't belong in amd. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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