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Date:      Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:47:34 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        nathan@rtfm.net (Nathan Dorfman), ken@plutotech.com, mike@smith.net.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposed atapi-cd patch 
Message-ID:  <199901061747.JAA03597@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jan 1999 08:07:20 %2B0100." <199901060707.IAA05204@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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> > dump or tgz track, etc. If not, putting this track offset code in cd9660
> > would be a little limiting, no?
> 
> this is actually a good point, although then you need to resort to the
> minor number trick (or modify all filesystem codes to let you add an
> offset to the start of the filesystem).

You *should* have been able simply to add a SLICE handler which 
recognised the CD TOC and did everything "right".

Unfortunately, we lost this when the SLICE code was butchered.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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