[paranoia] 'colorbook' fs - porting cdparanoia _into_ the kernel!

[David Pottage]

Mikko Nummelin wrote:

 > I just had an idea, has anyone thought of this before. Today, it is
 > so that almost any CD and DVD can be read in such a way that it is
 > mounted as a particular filesystem and then read by read(2) system
 > call. But not audio CD's. They have to be specially ripped with
 > cdda2wav or cdparanoia! What about coding an additional file system
 > (perhaps backporting a lots of cdparanoia stuff), say 'colorbook' for
 > referring to the audio CD standards and with that kernel, ripping an
 > audio CD could be done in the following way:
 >
 > # mount /dev/cdrom -t colorbook /mnt/cdrom
 >
 > # cd /mnt/cdrom
 >
 > # ls track01.wav track02.wav track03.wav track04.wav
 >
 > # cp track*.wav /home/<user>/cdrip/

I strongly suspect that the Linux kernel developers would say that that
kind of thing belongs in userland, I would agree with them.

What I would suggest, is that the functionality should be built into
the shell. By 'shell' I don't just mean bash etc, I also mean graphical
shells like KDE's knonquoeur file manager and the Gnome equvelent.

The end result would be the same, in that ordinary users would be able
to drag .wav files from an audio cd to a directory elsewhere, but it
would be achieved without bloating the kernel, and would also work on
non Linux systems.


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David.

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