Demand load of cd9660 filesystem not occurring

[Steven Friedrich]

On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:20 am, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I've been wrestling with mounting CDs as a non-root user and even though I
> performed all the steps in the handbook, it failed.
>
> So I tried to mount a CD as root, and THAT failed.
>
> As it turns out, I had removed CD9660 from my kernel config (a LONG time
> ago), because FreeBSD is supposed to load it on demand if it's not in the
> kernel.
>
> I added it back to the kernel config and now I can mount CDs as root or
> non-root.
>
> I believe this to be a bug, but perhaps I have something mis-configured.
>
> Any ideas?  Can anyone confirm this anomaly on their system?
>
> The particular CD is a DesignCAD installation disk, and it's Joliet 3
> extensions.  It's in a TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R5002 drive. I'm tracking FreeBSD
> 4.11.
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Ok, a little more work and I've discovered that I wasn't building the cd9660 
module.

So now, the problem is that if I am a non-root user, it won't demand load 
cd9660, but it will if I am root.

I don't know if this could be considered a bug, perhaps a warning should be 
added to the FAQ.