Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:52:39 +0100 | | From | Steve Dodd <> | | Subject | Re: A though on multi-session cds |
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On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 09:59:54AM -0400, Eric Kasten wrote:
> A thought on multi-session cds. I've been considering using CD-Writers > as a way to create snapshots of certain types of critical data by > writing a new track to the CD periodically (essentially creating a set > of generation datasets on the CD). One of the down sides of this > is that there isn't a particularily easy way (that I've located) to access > the data tracks beyond track 01 -- ie, mount mounts track 01, but there > isn't a way to mount a different track that also has an isofs on it.
isofs in 2.3.x (for suitable values of x, certainly >=15) has a session= parameter that you should be able to pass in via mount.
What would be even more interesting is for cdrom block devices to make multiple sessions appear as partitions -- assuming people don't ever put _real_ partition tables on CD-ROMs, of course.
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