isofs.txt

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 02:12:25 +0100 (MET)


It looks like the author of isofs.txt has not really
investigated his subject. From that file:

Mount options that are the same as for msdos and vfat partitions.

conv=binary Data is returned exactly as is, with CRLF's. [default]
conv=text (Carriage return, line feed) is replaced with newline.
conv=mtext (Carriage return, line feed) is returned as is (?).
conv=auto Chooses, file by file, conv=binary or conv=text (by guessing)

>From mount.8:

conv=a[uto] / conv=b[inary] / conv=m[text] / conv=t[ext]
(Default: conv=binary.) Since Linux 1.3.54 this
option has no effect anymore. (And non-binary set­
tings used to be very dangerous, often leading to
silent data corruption.)

And indeed, the field isofs_sb.s_conversion and the field
isofs_i.i_file_format are not used anywhere, so that the
code setting these fields can be removed without changing
the kernel behaviour. This is dead code.

Andries