Re: UDF format ? (was Re: CD-RW blues help)

[Z <zleite mminternet com>]

All your answers are here, my Friend:

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

I use the stuff on my Sony DRU500. It works great.
There is a dvd-video switch on mkisofs for UDF compatibility but I don't
think it enables packet writing. I researched this a while back for WORM
archival of logs and stuff.


On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 10:12, Elton Woo wrote:
> On May 31, 2003 12:54 pm, Andrew Smith shrike-list redhat com wrote:
> 
> > Last month I re-installed it to RedHat9
> > Then about a week later - for no apparent reason - I thought I
> > might put a UDF formatted DVD-RAM disk in it and see if it worked.
> > Wow - it behaves like a slow 2.6G HDD (about 1G per hour)
> > So UDF is now there and I assume you could use it on any
> > appropriate rewitable medium.
> 
> Ok. ....let me see if I get this right: If I install a pre-formatted (UDF)
> blank DVD disk in my DVD reader or CDRW drive, I can use it like
> a (slow) HD writingnd erasing stuff from it, without having to erase
> write the laser disk itself, each time? N.B. I *don't* have a DVD
> writer, just a plain CDRW drive (/dev/hdd) and a DVD reader (/dev/hdc).
> 
> Could I then, just buy a UDF pre-formatted DVD and use it as a
> backup? ... since DVD's hold more, it would be IMVHO an economically
> viable option to using 5 or more CDRW disks each time I want to back
> up my data, and (if I follow you correctly), I could simply erase a
> single file, instead of having to do an entire cd-record / erase session.
> 
> ... am I understanding this correctly?
> 
> as for my mention of "patching", while installing stuff, I seem to recall 
> that cdrecord needed to be appropiately "patched" to support UDF,
> hence my query as to if I needed to patch that, and / or the kernel...
> 
> (me: not very bright, but willing to learn more linux...)
> 
> Elton  ;-)
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