From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 25 20: 9:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB782159CD for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA17258 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:09:26 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA12453 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:09:25 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 48453 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 1999 03:09:26 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:09:26 +1000 To: David Kelly Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount a CD.........in 250 easy steps Message-ID: <19990826130926.A48046@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199908260137.UAA21717@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908260137.UAA21717@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:37:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:37:53PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > causes the system to crash. But if we had a filesystem driver that could > be used for removable media such as CDROM, Zip, Jaz, etc, written to > favor error checking over speed, only then would it be safe to automount > removable media by default. This is one of the reasons that I only ever use MS-DOS-formatted floppies: there's no need to mount them, and all the mucking around that that entails. I just use mtools to talk to them. Perhaps mtools, or a similar toolset that knew how to read and write off-line FFS filesystems, could be hooked to run as mountable file system, amd/nfs-style. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message