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

["Viron, Michael" <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Doug Loss wrote:

> 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.
Actually, you mean cp -R * [/whatever_your_shared_directory_is]....

Mike
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