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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!access.usask.ca!sue!udevdiv!roe From: roe@Unibase.SK.CA (Roe Peterson) Subject: Re: cdrom/nfs Message-ID: <1992Dec5.185704.7894@Unibase.SK.CA> Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd. References: <ByMzpG.AnJ@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 18:57:04 GMT Lines: 13 randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > Well, I thought I was all set. I finally got 386bsd to mount > a cdrom and found it was 10-20 times faster in accessing it > than using DOS or OS/2. (This is the Simtel-20 CDROM). > However, I than tried using my sysvr4 (dell 2.1) system to > mount the cdrom via nfs. No go. Acts as if there is no > drive mounted. Unless the source code has changed radically since I hacked at it, the problem here is the lack of file handle routines in the isofs file system. Without them, NFS can't work.