Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269806AbUICTjJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:39:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269759AbUICTiv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:38:51 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:64235 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269768AbUICTaP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:30:15 -0400 Message-Id: <200409031930.i83JUBpw001359@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 07/26/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Jan Harkes Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:13:35 EDT." <20040903071335.GB16619@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> <200409022319.i82NJlTN025039@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040903071335.GB16619@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_184083834P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:30:11 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1479 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_184083834P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:13:35 EDT, Jan Harkes said: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:19:47PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:38:54 +0200, Frank van Maarseveen said: > > > cd /dev/cdrom > > > ls > > > > And the CD in the drive at the moment is AC/DC "Back in Black". What > > should this produce as output? > > Hehe, cdfs already figured that one out. Ofcourse you show the > individual tracks as .wav files. That's sidestepping the *real* issue - which is that you need reasonable semantics even if you don't have cdfs or whatever special gee-wizz-bang driver handy. Consider an embedded system - it may have iso9660 support, and boot off a CD like Knoppix, but not have cdfs. What do you do then? (For bonus points, figure out the security issues involved in dealing with an intentionall corrupted image on a CD......) --==_Exmh_184083834P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBOMZDcC3lWbTT17ARAuoVAJ9SxudBz2N58qKQmHzozJRlZasqewCeMBlQ Ks+1LYugoGMXth1CQ29PD0o= =h5J4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_184083834P-- - 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/