Subject: Re: cdrom newfs
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/1995 06:40:31
>>>> a fsck fore iso-9660 (+rockridge) would also very nice :-)
>>> A what?  You dont want that.
>> If I were doing cd-rom creation, I would want such a thing.  Why do
>> you think I wouldn't?
> And a normal fsck would work, too,

It would?  Then why bother with an iso9660 filesystem?  "[N]ormal fsck"
can fsck only Berkeley FFS filesystems...and if iso9660 is so close to
that that fsck will work, it's close enough to be mounted as FFS.

> even though I've never seen a *writable* iso-fs yet - that's why I
> said he doesn't want that - because it would be quiet useless.

CDROM images stored in files are writable and in iso9660 format.

					der Mouse

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