Subject: Re: cd(4) and xmcd
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 02/18/2000 13:39:58
> # When a CD-ROM is changed in a drive controlled by the cd driver,
> # then the act of changing the media will invalidate the disklabel
> # and information held within the kernel. To stop corruption...
>
> ...excuse me. Hello? CD-ROM? ...ROM? as in READ-ONLY MEMORY?
> WHAT corruption?
I would assume that this referring to corrupted/confused data on
reads.
You don't want to install corrupted binaries because the CD got
swapped at an inopportune moment..
- Bill