Re: CD Partition (was: scsi naming (was: devfs patch v3))

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:58:05 +0100


Hi!

> > I was amused to notice that when I put a music cd in an SGI, it
> > automounted it, and made a directory containing all the music tracks...
> > I can immagine what it might do with this mixed cd, but I haven't trid
> > it. (Maybe I will tomorrow.)
>
> Cool. I am currently (well, was -- it has slightly fallen by the wayside
> ATM :) working on a CD audio filesystem, which will make an audio CD
> appear as a set of wav files.

Are you sure this is good idea to have in kernel? Maybe we should
create userland reader, exporting .wav files over nfs, or we could
implement something like userfs into linux. I think that userfs *is*
needed, because nfs against localhost just is not fast enough.

Pavel

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