Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Jim Crilly]

On 02/02/06 12:17:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jim Crilly <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Every other method to access those devices uses the device name, i.e.
> > mount, fsck, etc, so why should cdrecord be different?
> 
> inadequateness on Linux did force libscg to go this way.
> 

And inadequacies are what's causing libscg and 'cdrecord -scanbus' to fail
to list all IDE devices on Linux. Unless the comments about it stopping the
scan after getting -EPERM on one device are wrong.

> The current method used by libscg is well established since 10 years.

So? Change isn't always a bad thing.

> Now Linux likes to confuse people by trying to enforce a completely 
> incompatible access method.

>From my point of view it's cdrecord that's confusing Linux users by trying
to force a completely different device naming method on users for no good
reason.

> Note that I need to avoid unneeded efforts and for this reason, I need to wait
> 5 years until is is forseable that a recent incompatible change in Linux will
> survive long enough to spent time on it.

I could be wrong, but don't all of the other OSes that cdrecord and
libscg support access the device via the device node? When I mount
a device on Solaris I use /dev/c0t0d0s0 (or whatever it is)and not
0:0:0, right? So it would be safe to assume that users are used to
using that form of names for their devices, so why should cdrecord
be the odd man out?

Jim.
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