Re: Some ideas for the kernel wishlist
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:38:33 +0100 (BST)
> Well, as Uniform and ide-cdrom maintainer and I still don't understand. What
> exactly is "partition support for CDROM"? No cdrom standard I am familiar
> with describes a "CDROM partition". I don't claim to know everything (far
> from it), but I am fairly familiar with CDROMs... Do your mean the ability
> to mount individual sessions on a multi-session CDROM? Could you show me some
> documentation on what is you want Linux to support cdrom-wise? Is there some
> standard API out there for doing whatever this is (i.e. Does Sun do this?)?
Ok Macintosh, Sun and most other BSD derived boxes support partitioned
CD-ROM. This has nothing to do with 'partitioning/multi session' at the CD
layer. Instead the CD image consists of
Mac
labels, partition table, multiple HFS file systems
BSD/SunOS/Solaris
diskslice stuff, multiple UFS and other partitions
(basically it assumes a CD image is just like a disk image)
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