From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 10 2:30:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from studict.student.utwente.nl (studict.student.utwente.nl [130.89.220.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF1537B966 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 02:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from t.vanklaveren@student.utwente.nl) Received: from phoenix (cal30b054.student.utwente.nl [130.89.229.25]) by studict.student.utwente.nl (8.8.6/MQT) with SMTP id LAA13374; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:29:04 +0200 (METDST) Message-ID: <004701c002ad$77378960$19e55982@student.utwente.nl> From: "Theo van Klaveren" To: "Soren Schmidt" , "Koster, K.J." Cc: "FreeBSD Hackers" References: <200008100824.KAA13546@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:29:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soren Schmidt wrote: | Ahem, maybe its time I chime in here. | Luigi and I once had an idea of having each track on a CD represented | by a device node, ie track0 = /dev/acd0t1 track1 = /dev/acd0t2 etc etc, | that way you could mount each track with whatever fs it supported. | This could be used to do what you want, and now where the ata driver | supports odd sector sizes, there is nothing hindering doing the | mount of an audio track (given the right mount_bla util that is). I stand corrected. I hadn't thought the ATA driver was so close to doing that already. Then again, I haven't extensively studied the ATA code yet. | The only problem is that we have to abuse the minor# etc to | get space for the 99 tracks a CD can hold, but that is not too bad... Tracks, as in audio tracks? You wouldn't want a device for each audio track, you want one device for _all_ audio tracks and one device per data track. Or am I misunderstanding you here? Theo van Klaveren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message