[Info-vax] MOUNT and filesystems, was: Re: RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-26 08:26:35 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> I think that what Hoff and Simon are complaining about is that the 
> programming interface to MOUNT is inflexible and undocumented.

Ayup, at least for me.  And volume management is more than a little 
limited in general, too.

> $ HELP MOUNT /MEDIA
> 
>   /MEDIA_FORMAT
> 
>         /MEDIA_FORMAT=CDROM

That in-retrospect-wonderfully-misnamed keyword overrides the default 
format search order and the built-in format-sniffing carnal knowledge 
within MOUNT.  it's only useful for dual-format disks containing both 
an ODS-2 or ODS-5 file system, and a file system related to ISO-9660, 
as those would otherwise always mount the ODS-2 or ODS-5 file system 
and ignore the ISO-9660 file system or related variant.


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