oldlinux-files/Linux-0.98/sources/sbin/cdrom/README.CDROM-98pl6

		 	CDROM support for linux.

	Starting with the 0.98.6 kernel, the isofs filesystem is now
part of the official distribution.  The filesystem is not compiled
into the kernel by default, however.  In order to use it, you
will need to edit the file include/linux/config.h, and go down towards
the bottom, and look for a line like:

#undef ISO9660_FS

change this to:

#define ISO9660_FS

and then build the kernel in the usual fashion, and you should be all
set.  You must have a CDROM drive, a SCSI adapter and a ISO9660 format
disc before this will be of any use to you.

	Once you have booted the system, you will need to add a device
with major=11, minor=0 for the first cdrom drive, minor=1 for the
second and so forth.  You can use a command something like:

	mknod -m 500 /dev/cdrom b 11 0

To mount a disc, use a command something like:

	mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

	There are mount options which can disable filename mapping,
and control the conversion of text files.  The options are:

	map=[on,off,normal]
	conv=[auto,binary,text,mtext]
	norock
	cruft

The defaults are effectively map=on,conv=auto,rock,nocruft.
The effect that these options have is described later on in this document.

Support for Rock Ridge extensions is present in the filesystem.
This means:

	* Longer filenames (My implementation limits it to 256 chars).
	* Mixed case filenames, Normal unix syntax availible. 
	* Files have correct modes, number of links, and uid/gid
	* Separate times for atime, mtime, and ctime.
	* Symbolic links.
	* Block and Character devices.
	* Deep directories (Untested).

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

	None.

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Some general comments are in order:

	On some drives, there is a feature where the drive can be
locked under software control to essentially deactivate the eject
button.  The scsi cdrom code activates this feature on drives so
equipt, so you may be unable to remove the disc while it is mounted.
The eject button will be re-enabled once the disc is dismounted.

	A single element cache was added that sits between the readdir
function and the lookup function.  Many programs that traverse the
directory tree (i.e. ls) also need to know the inode number and find
information about the file from the inode table.  For the CDROM this
is kind of silly, since all of the information is in one place, but we
have to make it look kind of like unix.  Thus the readdir function
returns a name, and then we do a stat, given that name and have to
search the same directory again for the file that we just extracted in
readdir.  On the Andrew toolkit disc, there is one directory that
contains about 700 files and is nearly 80kb long - doing an ls -l in
that directory takes several minutes, because each lookup has to
search the directory.  Since it turns out that we often call lookup
just after we read the directory, I added a one element cache to save
enough information so as to eliminate the need to search the directory
again.

	The CDROM has a sector size of 2048 bytes, but the buffer
cache has buffer sizes of 1024 bytes.  The SCSI high level driver for
the cdrom must perform buffering of all of the I/O in order to satisfy
the request.  At some point in the near future support will be present
in the kernel for buffers in the buffer cache which are != 1024 bytes,
at which time this code will be removed.

	Both the ISO 9660 filesystem and the High Sierra are
supported.  The High Sierra format is just an earlier version of
ISO9660, but there are minor differences between the two.  Sometimes
people use the two names interchangably, but nearly all newer discs
are the ISO9660 format.

	The inode numbers for files are essentially just the byte
offset of the beginning of the directory record from the start of the
disc.  A disc can only hold about 660 MB, so the inode numbers will
be somewhere between about 60K and 660M.   Any tool that performs
a stat() on the CDROM obviously needs to be recompiled if it was
compiled before 32 bit inode support was in the kernel.

	A number of ioctl functions have been provided, some of which
are only of use when trying to play an audio disc.  An attempt has
been made to make the ioctls compatible with the ioctls on a Sun, but
we have been unable to get any of the audio functions to work.  My
NEC drive and David's Sony reject all of these commands, and we currently
believe that both of these drives implement the audio functions using
vendor-specific command codes rather than the universal ones specified
in the SCSI-II specifications.

	Text files on a CDROM can have several types of line
terminators.  Lines can be terminated by LF, CRLF, or a CR.  The
filesystem scans the first 1024 bytes of the file, searching for out
of band characters (i.e. > 0x80 or some control characters), and if it
finds these it assumes the the file is a binary format.  If there are
no out of band characters the filesystem will assume that the file is
a text file (keeping track of whether the lines are terminated by a
CR, CRLF, or LF), and automatically converts the line terminators to a
LF, which is the unix standard.  In the case of CRLF termination, the
CR is converted to a ' '.  The heuristic can be explicitly overridden
with the conv= mount option, which tells the filesystem that *all* files
on the volume are the specified type.

	Rock Ridge extensions can be inhibited with the "norock" mount
option.  This could be of use if you have scripts that work with the
non-Rock Ridge filenames, or if you encounter a bug in the filesystem
which really screws you up.


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The remaining comments *only* apply to discs *without* the Rock Ridge
extensions:

	The find command does not work without the -noleaf switch.
The reason for this is that the number of links for each directory file
is not easily obtainable, so it is set to 2.  The default behavior for
the find program is to look for (i_links-2) subdirectories in each
directory, and it then assumes that the rest are regular files.  The
-noleaf switch disables this optimization.

	The filesystem currently has the execute permission set for
any non-directory file that does not have a period in its name.  This
is a crude assumption for now, but it kind of works.  There is not an
easy way of telling whether a file should be executable or not.
Theoretically it is possible to read the file itself and check for a
magic number, but this would considerably degrade performance.

	The filesystem does not support block or character devices,
fifos, or symbolic links.  Also, the setuid bit is never set for any
program.  The main reason for this is that there is no information in
the directory entry itself which could be used to indicate these
special types of files.

	Filenames under ISO9660 are normally all upper case on the
disc but the filesystem maps these to all lower case.  The filenames
on the disc also have a version number (like VMS) which appears at the
end of the filename, and is separated from the rest of the filename by
a ';' character.  The filesystem strips the version numbers from the
filename if the version number is 1, and replaces the ';' by a '.' if
the version number is >1.  The mount option map=off will disable all
of the name mapping, and when this is in effect, all filenames will be
in upper case, and the semicolons and version numbers will always appear.

	Discs that are mastered by Profit Publishing, Tuscon AZ have
been known to have a defective file length field.  For some reason the
top byte contains junk for all I can tell, and this confuses the
iso9660 filesystem.  If you run into trouble with discs from Profit, use the
"cruft" mount option, which will cause the filesystem to mask off the top
byte of the file length.

eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil