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KHB: A Filesystems reading listKHB: A Filesystems reading listPosted Aug 23, 2006 16:37 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: KHB: A Filesystems reading list by nlucas Parent article: KHB: A Filesystems reading list
What? Packet-written CD-RWs use UDF filesystems, and act just like a normal filesystem (except that the device is really rather slow and the filesystem overhead is ridiculous). In modern CD-RWs and all DVD-RWs this is even in hardware (while I haven't yet seen a CD rewriter that has packet-writing firmware that works well, this may not be true of DVD-RW drives).
It's ISO-9660 that has to be built in one lump.
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KHB: A Filesystems reading list Posted Aug 24, 2006 21:51 UTC (Thu) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link] I now understand the problem has nothing to do with filesystems, except the UDF overhead problem (and ISO-9660 compatibilty), as it's the only usable CD/DVD RW filesystem (because it can be read everywhere).
It seems the problem is only on the software side (for modern RW drives, I mean), and maybe cdrecord "flame wars" have delayed the adoption of a standard linux solution for the typical user cases (like maybe a FUSE DVD UDF filesystem that works the same as a USB pen, i.e. can add/delete files on the fly).
Well, I still have a lot of doubts about the process, but the truth is this thread is becoming off topic so I'll refrain my thoughts for latter times.
KHB: A Filesystems reading list Posted Aug 27, 2006 15:53 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] We already have exactly that feature: the packet-writing driver. If you'repacket-writing to CD-RW (or DVD-RW) you don't *need* cdrecord, or FUSE.
(It does indeed have significant overhead, as you say.)
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