From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 3 12:58:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15744 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15728 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA27453 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:58:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00148; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:44:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970403224454.SP47619@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 ? References: <199704030857.KAA29446@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704030857.KAA29446@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Apr 3, 1997 10:57:04 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)