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Date:      Sun, 06 Oct 2002 14:04:11 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: devfs oddity? 
Message-ID:  <94288.1033905851@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Oct 2002 06:08:44 EDT." <20021006060625.K30311-100000@sasami.jurai.net> 

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In message <20021006060625.K30311-100000@sasami.jurai.net>, "Matthew N. Dodd" w
rites:
>On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
>> Since when hasn't it been standard on BSD based systems?  Other than
>> recently on FreeBSD, all other BSD systems I've used, the "c" partition
>> has been necessary when wanting to operate on the entire disk.
>
>Has our CDROM driver ever supported multiple ISO filesystems per CD?  Has
>it supported multi-session CDROMs?  The notion of partitions on CDROMs is
>a little ambiguous.  I'm hoping that GEOM can improve this.

I'm not sure GEOM could improve it as much as atapi-cd already has
improved it, I'm not sure where it is documented, but you can
access each track separately with some /dev/acd0t%d kind of syntax
or something.

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