Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:36:50 -0400 From: Sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup? Message-ID: <445A57D2.7070503@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20060504192243.GA99120@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <445A3FDD.9080904@verizon.net> <20060504192243.GA99120@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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David Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Sean wrote:
>> I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how
>> to setup the fstab.
>>
>> The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be
>> specified?
>
> This is typical of what sysinstall writes if a CD/DVD is found during
> installation:
>
> /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
>
> The line isn't necessary, but it makes mounting optical media as simple
> as "sudo mount /cdrom" and "sudo umount /cdrom" assuming your filesystem
> is ISO-9660.
>
> FreeBSD CD/DVD support isn't as "user friendly" as Irix or MacOS. Maybe
> someone would like to create an Irix-like mediad to monitor the
> attaching and removing of media, and to act appropriately on those
> events? Haven't looked lately but possibly KDE and/or Gnome does this?
>
> The Irix mediad daemon I so fondly remember launched appropriate
> non-kernel userspace helpers as filesystem drivers. At least in the past
> it was too easy to create a corrupt 9660 disc which panics the 9660
> kernel driver. A crashed user process isn't as critical. And its not as
> if any significant performance increase can be had with the code in the
> kernel.
>
> And then while I'm wishful thinking, a mediad should control whether the
> new disk (media) is to be privately mounted (say, in someone's
> ${HOME}/mount/), or publicly for everyone, added to webserver space,
> NFS, and/or SMB exports.
>
Thanks, that is what I had done, but was wondering if I had to do
anything different for a DVD.
I recall that a region code also has to be set?
Sean
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