cdcontrol purpose

[Alfred Perlstein]

* gnn at freebsd.org <gnn at freebsd.org> [080114 07:11] wrote:
> 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.

I agree.  

I can't tell if Andriy is suggesting that cdcontrol unmount the filesystem
forcefully or at least attempt to unmount it.

I would say that it might make sense for cdcontrol to grow a flag
to "unmount non-forcefully if mounted", but certainly not to
unmount by default.

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- Alfred Perlstein