Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:06:17 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: gnn@freebsd.org Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdcontrol purpose Message-ID: <20080114160617.GN99258@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <7iir1wtp91.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <478B3EE0.8040908@icyb.net.ua> <7iir1wtp91.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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* gnn@freebsd.org <gnn@freebsd.org> [080114 07:11] wrote: > At Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:52:16 +0200, > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > > > > The following question may seem to be offtopic for this list, but I > > think that it's not because it is related not only to cdcontrol utility > > itself but also to the CD-ROM drivers. > > > > The question: should cdcontrol utility be able to eject a mounted disk > > (i.e. a filesystem on the disk is mounted) ? > > > > I come down on the side of "separation of concerns" and think that > mount should deal with filesystems and that cdcontrol should not. I agree. I can't tell if Andriy is suggesting that cdcontrol unmount the filesystem forcefully or at least attempt to unmount it. I would say that it might make sense for cdcontrol to grow a flag to "unmount non-forcefully if mounted", but certainly not to unmount by default. -- - Alfred Perlstein
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