Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:22:20 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Handbook: 16.7 Creating and Using Optical Media (DVDs) Message-ID: <20050404062220.GB39413@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <200504031657.44955.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200504031600.27612.josh@tcbug.org> <20050403213555.GB777@zaphod.nitro.dk> <200504031657.44955.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:57:44PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 16:35, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2005.04.03 16:00:27 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > I've come across some data DVDs that require me to do: > > > mount_cd9660 -s 0 /dev/acd0 /cdrom where /dev/acd0 is my > > > DVD-ROM and /cdrom is the mount-point (obviously) > > > > It sounds more like a bug in the cd9660 fs to me, or is known that > > it can't be fixed? > > The -s switch is documented in the mount_cd9660 man page. There are > no examples that are specific to DVD's in the man page however. > > There are no PR's for this issue that I can find. It is odd though, I > can't be the first person to ever mount a data DVD. There are > several posts in the -questions archives but none of them seem to > get the issue resolved. > If you need to pass "special" option to mount a data DVD/CD, it means the filesystem on the media has some "issues" or is not really "compliant". This should be marginal. If we need to document it, we just have to update a bit the mount_cd9660 manual page to say that issue is media independant and -s 0 may be required by some "weird" data CD/DVD/whatever that refuse to be mounted. Marc
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