From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 3 11:42:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA18977 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:42:36 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18968 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:42:25 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA28692; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:42:04 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA22237; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:41:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA04092; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:01:32 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512031901.UAA04092@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mkisofs coredumping when attempting to write to HP SureStore 4020i To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:01:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: jon@technix.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512020040.RAA02937@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 1, 95 05:40:36 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 376 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > You *never* run mkisofs against a writer device. Ever. If the filesystems perform fast enough, and the worm driver will be sophisticated enough (some day :), you could in fact do it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)