Re: A though on multi-session cds
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Oct 1999 21:05:01 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910071416590.25867-100000@maestro.symsys.com>
By author: Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > 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.
>
> I once used a multisession CD-ROM (don't recall the brand) whose authoring
> software and device driver allowed for incremental backups. The driver
> would present the multisession CD-ROM as one filesystem where you only saw
> the most recent version of a given file. It was pretty slick.
>
mkisofs can do this. Note that the proper default behaviour for
mounting a multisession CD-ROM is to mount the *latest* session.
-hpa
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