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cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2006 6:56 UTC (Sun) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)
In reply to: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses by k8to
Parent article: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

You still need mkisofs to create the filesystem for the CD...

From my experience, Joerg doesn't seem to accept any patches. Mkisofs contains some braindead code that results in significant slowdowns (Joerg claims it came from the original author Eric Yougdale).
I sent him a first version of a fix 4 years ago, another, improved version two years ago. It still is not added to the code. In the meantime, I have put up the patch myself on my website...

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cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2006 9:29 UTC (Sun) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

dvdrtools is working on mkisofs as well: http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools/changeset/16

If you have not already done so, consider sending your improvement suggestions to the team.

cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2006 17:00 UTC (Sun) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link]

Thanks for the info.
I will send it to them.

cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 14, 2006 20:25 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

growisofs rocks for me. It's a front end for mkisofs and it's aviable at least through Debian.

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd somethingthing.iso

Or you can pipe into it to burn data directly to the cdrom after a iso format conversion.

My favorite of course is splitpipe and I've mentioned it in a couple different places.

Splitpipe is a handy little program that is similar to split, but instead of just spliting files it performs a action on every segment it produces after it produces it.
http://ds9a.nl/splitpipe/

A slightly modified example of what you can do:
tar c /home | splitpipe -s dvd -o 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/stdin'

So then it will just feed it data until it needs a new dvd. It pauses, you insert a new dvd, and then hit enter. You just feed it dvds until it's finished. Then to do the restore there is a 'joinpipe' command.

Joerg is ok.

I mean he is a pompus jerk sometimes. He is a solaris lover to absurd lengths... If you disagree with him he will simply say something like:
"Oh, this is how SOLARIS does it. How you do it is broken"

That sort of thing.

The only thing that gives him validity is there have been nearly a dozen forks of cdrecord and related items away from him... AND ALL OF THEM FAILED.

All of them. So obviously he has some good points on how and why he does what he does.

The only thing that pisses me off is that he is trying to use cdrecord and related open source items as a reason for selling his propriatory ProDVD application. So he has delibrately made DVD recording difficult in Linux in order to sell his app.

growisofs is not just a front end

Posted Aug 26, 2006 9:01 UTC (Sat) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link]

growisofs is mainly DVD writing software, and I am very happy with it.

It uses mkisofs when you write some directory tree to the DVD, or it can just directly write ISO images.

Unfortunatley, it does not make cdrtools completely unnecessary, for two reasons:

1) mkisofs is part of cdrtools

2) At least the version I have of growisofs does not write CDs