From: Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:19:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020911211959.GA31724@babylon5.babcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031182512.3017.139.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
A deficiency in the Linux CDROM driver was just brought to my attention.
Even on a kernel configured with support for UFS and Sun partition
tables, it doesn't appear to be possible to mount any but the first
slice of a Sun CDROM containing multiple slices. Essentially, it seems
that Solaris partition table support doesn't trickle down to the CDROM
driver.
Is this something that's supposed to happen, and is there a reason why
it's not supported, or is it simply that no-one has asked for it to be
supported and/or no-one has gotten around to implementing it because of
lack of demand?
(The particular case in which this came up is someone who has a Sun box
without a CDROM drive in it, and wants to use a Linux box as a jumpstart
server, but can't because the Linux box can't read beyond the first
slice on the CD.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-04 18:19 PROBLEM: Kernel 2.4.19 does not export _mmx_memcpy when compiled with gcc-3.2 and Athlon optimizations Phil Stracchino
2002-09-04 18:48 ` FOLLOWUP: " Phil Stracchino
2002-09-04 23:35 ` PROBLEM: " Alan Cox
2002-09-05 1:16 ` Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:19 ` Phil Stracchino [this message]
2002-09-11 21:28 ` CDROM driver does not support Linux partition tables Alan Cox
2002-09-12 5:06 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-12 7:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-12 19:58 ` Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-09-11 21:39 ` Phil Stracchino
2002-09-11 21:37 ` Thunder from the hill
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