Subject: Re: Disklabel oddity To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG,>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <> List: tech-kern Date: 04/19/1996
14:11:27 > So, I've been looking at adding multisession support
to the SCSI cd > driver.  Doesn't look too hard - looks like the
right thing to do is > read the TOC, generate a synthetic
disklabel using the information from > the TOC, and then you can
just access the the different sessions as different >
partitions.  But that's not what multisession CDs are about.  On
multisession CDs, you should only read the directory tree of the
last session. This one will have pointers to files in previous
sessions, too.  Yes, there are CDs out there that have multiple
sessions with separate directory trees, but that's a different
concept. They happen to be called (unfortunately, see my
previous post about the correct definition of this term) multi-
volume CDs.  > When looking at the disklabel-generation code,
I've come across something > that seems rather odd.  From
looking at the code in cd.c (and sd