From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 11 20:30:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-203.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8E537B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topperwein (topperwein [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3C3UX314200 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:30:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:30:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: very old bug In-Reply-To: <20020411185344.B5143@alicia.nttmcl.com> Message-ID: <20020411232914.B13867-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, JJ Behrens wrote: > > You can't do that; to write to a CD-ROM you must use special-purpose software. > > > > Come to think of it, perhaps the best fix for floppies is to simply disable > > the mounting of floppy-based file systems, forcing you to use mtools, which > > doesn't have this problem. > > > > This is pretty much the equivalent situation to a CD-RW. > > This seems like amazing overkill to work around such an obscure bug :) I > disagree with your argument concerning CD-RW's: it's the filesystem used by > CD-RW's that make them unsuitable for mounting read/write. Well, no, it's not. CD-RWs can use UDF, in which case, they can be mounted read/write if the kernel has UDF support. CD-Rs, OTOH, are definitely unsuitable for mounting read/write. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message