Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Jim Crilly]

On 01/31/06 02:37:22PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Juerg Billeter <j@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > So why do people try to convince me that there is a need to avoid the standard 
> > > SCSI protocol stack because a PC might have only ATAPI? 
> > > 
> > > Major OS implementations use a unique view on SCSI (MS-win [*], FreeBSD, Solaris, 
> > > ...). Why do people believe that Linux needs to be different? What does it buy 
> > > you to go this way?
> >
> > Why do you believe that Linux needs to do the same as every other OS?
> 
> Why do you believe that Linux needs to be worse than other OS?
> 

Every other method to access those devices uses the device name, i.e.
mount, fsck, etc, so why should cdrecord be different?

> Jörg


Jim.
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