Hi Christoph You wrote:
While adding support for partitions on sr is trivial it has a huge drawback: it's chaning the dev_t space by using up device numbers for partitions, so /dev/sr0 ff will have different device numbers with that change applied. I have an old patch that's supposed to enable support for partitioned scsi removable devices at http://rechner.lst.de/~hch/hacks/sr-parts.diff, I'm not sure it actually ever worked (but you should get the basic idea from it)
Ok, thanks for your valuable input. In fact, I thought about making the device available both as /dev/srX and /dev/sdX at the same time in order to support partitions. In my case it would even suffice to make it available as /dev/sdX instead of /dev/srX. Since I have no expert knowledge about this topic, I would be interested in the general attitude towards "partitions on SCSI DVD-RAM media / SCSI removable devices": - Are partitions intentionally not supported? If so, why? - Does it usually work but not with my specific DVD-RAM model? If so, why? - Do you think that this should be fixed? Please note that personally, I can live with the "losetup hack" since it is easy enough to write a program which encapsulates partition mounting. However, there might be people which would prefer plugging in a (possibly pre-)partitioned medium and having the partitions work out of the box in the expected way. Regards, Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
