Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:34:43 -0500 | From | Bryce Nesbitt <> | Subject | Re: Why would a valid DVD show zero files on Linux? |
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Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:21:24AM -0500, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce@obviously.com> wrote: > | Alan Cox wrote: > | > The autodetection is working. Your DVD has a UDF file system on it and a > | > blank iso9660 one. > | Understood. However, why can't that combination "just work"? Changing > | /etc/fstab every time I switch between sticking in a CD-ROM and DVD-ROM is not cool. > | Certainly that "other operating system" does not make me do that. > > I do this via autofs, and just say /mnt/dvd when I want UDF and /mnt/cdrom > when I want a CDROM. It does depend on having my eyes open when I stick > the medium in the drive... > > Of course, this merely bypasses the autodetection.
Ok, I admit, I do the same thing. I manually mount. But let's get in the head of a user, why should they care what type of 5 inch round shiny thing they just inserted?
Are there any cases where udf filesystems are present on cdrom's that should be read as iso9660? Someone mentioned it's a hard heuristic to figure out which fake filename the empty iso9660 filesystem uses. How about, instead, pick the larger of the two filesystems if both are present.
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