On Sun Mar 13, 2005 at 16:01:49 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: >While I appreciate there is some technical issue involved here, as a PC >user I expect a tool (like e.g. ls, nautilus or whatever) that professes >to give me a list of files on a storage medium, to do this for all >storage media - and to me an audio cd is just that, with one or more >files or tracks or whatever on it. >In this case I presume it would be trivial to incorporate whatever >voodoo cdparanoia uses and make ls display the fact that there is an >audio file called xyz on the cd I just loaded. Any mount command would >presumably be doing something quite different than what is done for e.g. >vfat, but to the user it's all the same. >What I'm getting at is, it's what it means to the user that matters, not >what's going on behind the scenes. MS grasped this brilliantly.
I don't disagree. I was talking from a philosphical point of view -- which is what was asked for by Trent in the email to which I was replying. Now I really don't know much about the details of the track format of audio cds, however I *do* know that cdparanoia goes through a lot of black magic to copy an audio track error free. Thankfully it looks like 2.6.12 might have user-level filesystems, which should make it much easier to implement something such as you describe. Cheers, Benno >cheers >Rod >On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:25 +1100, Benno wrote: >> On Sun Mar 13, 2005 at 01:32:58 +1000, QuantumG wrote: >> >Jeff Waugh wrote: >> > >> >>Windows is lying a little bit, to give you a nicer interface. Audio CDs are >> >>not like data CDs, and cannot be mounted. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >From a purely philosophical point of view, what would be a good reason >> >for not have a kernel module that mounts audio CDs by interpreting the >> >red book format? >> >> Well if you have the philosophy of 'only do it in the kernel if you *have* >> to', then there is no reason to put it in the kernel, as has already been >> proven it is able to be done quite well at user level. >> >> >Seems kind of silly to have code at the application >> >level doing this low level interpretation. >> >> >From my p.o.v it seems silly to have thi kind of code in the kernel >> when clearly it can be done just as well at user-level. >> >> Benno >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel > >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
