[Wylug-discuss] Sound Recordings

Smylers Smylers at stripey.com
Thu Feb 2 16:51:29 GMT 2006


James Holden writes:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:53:45PM +0000, Mark P. Conmy wrote:
> 
> > # mount -o loop,ro sheflug-1.cdr /some/mountpoint
> 
> Right... so they're *not* audio files then, they're actually ISO9660
> filesystem images.
> 
> I'm still a little puzzled as to why they didn't just make the above
> files available on their server just as they are above.

I can't think of a good reason for doing that either.

> Were they running out of inodes or something? ;-)

Mark Dominus (a luminary of the Perl community) posted today this tale
of running out of inodes:

  http://www.plover.com/blog/2006/02/02/#multiple-connections

But I think it's unlikely that ManLug were in a similar situation ...

Smylers




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