Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:44:54 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD format for backups ? Message-ID: <19970403224454.SP47619@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704030857.KAA29446@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Apr 3, 1997 10:57:04 %2B0200 References: <199704030857.KAA29446@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > - use the partition (/dev/wd0f or /dev/rwd0f ?) as the source for the > CD data > > then in order to read the data I would only want to mount /dev/wcd0c as > FFS instead of cd9660 -- any hope that it works ? Well, UFS is currently still a little iffy when it comes to devices that are not using 512 bytes blocksize. So, ``it depends''. > And also, should I use the char or block device ? Use them as their names suggest: the raw device for writing raw data (i.e., reading from your harddisk), the buffered device for mounting filesystems using the buffer cache. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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