From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: 600Meg CD's and file systems Date: 6 Oct 1992 20:48:25 GMT
Hans Oey (hans@mo.hobby.nl) wrote:
: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
: >In article <1992Oct1.032919.4968@news.acns.nwu.edu> hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
:
: >No these are read/write CD's, basically they are supposed to look like
: >hard drives. Does the CD_ROM file system support read/write?
:
: I use rewritable magneto-optical disks (650 Mb on two sides)
: with the extended file system. As long as you don't change
: media everything works fine.
Why is that? As long as you unmount, change, then mount, I don't understand
the problem.
: Why is the partition table read at boot time?
: IMHO it should be done when opening the device file.
: On Interactive and Esix I could use the disk in the same
: way as a larger floppy for file systems and tar/cpio archives.
The BIOS does it, too.
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