Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261989AbUCSRHN (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:07:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262345AbUCSRHN (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:07:13 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:10127 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261989AbUCSRGo (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:06:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:09:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Tigran Aivazian cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CDFS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2414 Lines: 76 On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:01:44 -0500 (EST) Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > > | > > > | Just got a CD/ROM that 'works' on W$, but not Linux. > > > | W$ `properties` call it 'CDFS'. Is there any such Linux > > > | support? > > > > > > You did try to search for it, right? > > > > > > > Sure did and what I get was an explaination that, for > > Linux, the letters "CDFS" refer to something that "exports > > all the tracks and boot images of a CD as normal files". > > > > That's not what I want. I want to mount a CDFS file-system. > > > > Given that, maybe the explaination is bogus, but I > > need some CDFS file-system support so I can mount > > a Microsoft CDFS CD/ROM. If such support exists, I > > would think that I should be able to do: > > > > mount -t cdfs /dev/cdrom /mnt > > Unless something has changed seriously in just a few years, the name CDFS > was always just a Microsoft synonym for the proper name iso9660. The Linux > name CDFS is the filesystem which Randy pointed you at, for mounting > multi-session CDs and accessing individual sessions as files (iso images). > Mounting it as an iso9660 fs doesn't work. > So, if you have what Microsoft calls CDFS then it is simply iso9660 and if > it doesn't mount then either your CD is damaged (and you only get a false > "impression" of it working in Windows) or there is a bug in Linux iso9660 > implementation. What are the error messages you get when you try to mount > it as an iso9660? Script started on Fri Mar 19 12:01:38 2004 # umount /mnt # umount /mnt umount: /mnt: not mounted # umount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems # exit Script done on Fri Mar 19 12:04:49 2004 > > (You didn't forget to compile Joliet and RR extensions into your kernel, > did you?) Nope. > > Kind regards > Tigran > Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/