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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 1995 23:09:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Interesting SCSI cdrom problem..
Message-ID:  <199504242109.XAA04578@jette.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504241237.HAA02410@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 24, 95 07:37:58 am

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> 
> >  Yes, that entirely makes sense.  I was considering the situation myself;
> > what else could you do given that the "disk" can be jerked out from under
> > you? 
> 
> If there is a guaranteed unique ID you can get from the CDROM, you can
> use that to maintain multiple mount structures in memory, and prompt the
> user for the appropriate disc when necessary.

This would be great.  The current solution about stale NFS file
handles on a CDROM is a mess.  If there would be something more
rational, i'm willing to integrate it into the cd9660 code.

Jörg (yes, with the umlaut -- people behind the DEC gateway won't see it :)



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