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Burning CDs on Linux (IBM developerWorks)Burning CDs on Linux (IBM developerWorks)Posted Apr 24, 2003 22:09 UTC (Thu) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)Parent article: Burning CDs on Linux (IBM developerWorks) The development kernel series 2.5.x does support CD-burning directly through IDE with no SCSI-emulation layer. See the CD-recording section of the current What to Expect document. So that's one issue taken care of. As to "more powerful and versatile" - that also is true, at least to the extent that the linux tools permit creation, burning, and mounting of transparently compressed file systems. Using mkzisofs and cdrecord -z one can effectively double or triple the number of files backed up to CD. This does not help for files that are already heavily compressed, such as MP3s or the like. But it's nothing to sneer at either. It means I can back up a 1.2GB user partition to a single CD.
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