Re: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Ryan Booz wrote:

> >Dan Yonker wrote:
> >I have set up a linux box serving iso images of various cd-roms using the loop
> >device.....
>
> I'm showing that I still have a lot to learn about Linux.  But I'm wondering why
> I would want to use the loop device rather than just mounting the CD ISO images as
> seperate file systems?  My understanding of the loop device is that it can map a
> file (like ISO) onto it's own virtual device.  Are we just talking semantics here?

Using the loop device is a way of letting the ISO image be mounted in the same way as
the actual CD-ROM in its drive would be.  Me, I'd just load the CD-ROM into the drive,
do a cd -R * [/whatever_your_shared_directory_is], and then share the contents of the
CD from the ext2 (or whatever) filesystem.

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