Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:30:11 -0400 |
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On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:13:35 EDT, Jan Harkes said: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:19:47PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:38:54 +0200, Frank van Maarseveen said: > > > cd /dev/cdrom > > > ls > > > > And the CD in the drive at the moment is AC/DC "Back in Black". What > > should this produce as output? > > Hehe, cdfs already figured that one out. Ofcourse you show the > individual tracks as .wav files.
That's sidestepping the *real* issue - which is that you need reasonable semantics even if you don't have cdfs or whatever special gee-wizz-bang driver handy.
Consider an embedded system - it may have iso9660 support, and boot off a CD like Knoppix, but not have cdfs. What do you do then?
(For bonus points, figure out the security issues involved in dealing with an intentionall corrupted image on a CD......) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |