Re: problems with `dselect'

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> mount on the Hurd tries to guess the right translator by using
> /hurd/${FSTYPE}fs, so it is probably looking for /hurd/iso9660fs which isn't
> there.  A simple work around would be to create a symlink in /hurd.  This
> is not such abad solution, at least for the Debian package.  Another would
> be to hard code a conversion table into the mount program, which is not very
> elegant either.

I think a conversion table of aliases is actually a nice idea, but it
should be on disk somewhere.

However, "isofs" is not really that descriptive, and I have no
objection to changing the canonical name to iso9660fs.