Mounting CDFS

[therealkenc]

Filesystem Improvements

• Allow mounting of UNC paths
• Enable CDFS support in drvfs
• Correctly handle permissions for network file systems in drvfs
• Add support for remote drives to drvfs
• Enable FAT support in drvfs

Okay I'll bite. At considerable risk of demonstrating my overlooking the patently obvious, how does one mount CDFS on 16176? I put a random ISO 9660 disk in my drive and it lights up as D: in Windows natch, but no sign in WSL /mnt/d. I have restarted the WSL instance. Can't mount it by the usual Linux block device means, which isn't how I would expect it to work on WSL anyway. So, ...?

And more generally, how are you managing disks coming and going? Which is really what has my curiosity piqued, as opposed to actually desiring to read anything off a plastic disk.

[benhillis]

@therealkenc - good question. @SvenGroot has a blog post that will be releasing soon talking about the feature. Currently removable drives and network shares have to be mounted manually. Automatically mounting and unmounting drives as they appear in Windows is being considered in a future change. In the meantime here's some of the things you can do:

Mounting DrvFs (including USB and CD)
sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

Mounting network locations
sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

Volumes mounted on empty NTFS folders
sudo mount -t drvfs 'C:\mountpoint' /mnt/myvolume

[therealkenc]

Awesome Ben; thank-you! [Everybody's Working for the Weekend 🎶.] Works perfectly as advertised. I suppose re-purpose this question to feature request: Add support for NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT. I mean, how hard can it be? 😀

[therealkenc]

Looks like udfs.sys is also wired up, even though it isn't explicitly mentioned in the release notes. Very nicely played, @SvenGroot 💯.

Unfortunately mrxdav.sys does not seem to take. Which spoiled my Inception experiment.

[therealkenc]

Closing as asked and answered. See the blog post for anyone who might land here in a search.