cdcontrol purpose

gnn at freebsd.org gnn at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 14 07:12:44 PST 2008


At Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:52:16 +0200,
Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> 
> The following question may seem to be offtopic for this list, but I
> think that it's not because it is related not only to cdcontrol utility
> itself but also to the CD-ROM drivers.
> 
> The question: should cdcontrol utility be able to eject a mounted disk
> (i.e. a filesystem on the disk is mounted) ?
> 

I come down on the side of "separation of concerns" and think that
mount should deal with filesystems and that cdcontrol should not.

Best,
George


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