Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:30:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: very old bug Message-ID: <20020411232914.B13867-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020411185344.B5143@alicia.nttmcl.com>
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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.
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