[9fans] CD-ROMs

[lucio@proxima.alt.za]

I'm sure I saw reference somewhere in the 3ed documentation about
mounting a CD-ROM disk off the fileserver, interposing /srv/9660 to
get correct access.

Except that considerable experimentation on my part has failed to
concoct the right philter to make my 6-platter CD-ROM changer
digestible to the 3ed fileserver.

Do I need to understand the fileserver much better, or should I
consider hacking it to achieve this objective?  I have a whole lot of
SCSI CD-ROM drives I'd like attached to the Plan 9 network, and I'd
like the Plan 9 way to handle them (specially some sort of intelligent
cacheing, who knows what one can manage that way).

In passing, I crashed the kernel by (apparently) starting to play some
Grace Jones on Russ's "acd" before or close to the moment when the
freedb lookup failed.  Something about the tail missing somewhere.  Is
9trouble the best place to report that in detail?

++L