Re: burning changing files

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:14:28 dagurasu wrote:
> I would like to be able to burn my home directory to DVD+R while I work
> preferably without using extra HD space. I have done this and usually
> been ok, but when investigating what turned out to be a drive problem,
>  I also managed to learn that mkisofs will have problems if files change
> after the disk header (fat or whatever it's called in iso's) is created
> and before the data is
> written, and that data could be lost. Moreover, it's not just the data
> in the changed files that could be lost.
>
>  Does growisofs have this issue as well? Obviously if I'm working with

growisofs simply calls mkisofs to create the image, so yes. :)

> multiple files that belong to a project, I may not end up with
> synchronized versions of those files on disk if I'm changing them while
> they burn. I'm not worried about that, I just want to make sure the data
> is readable. I think it's a safe bet that there are lots of folks out
> there who burn their whole home space to disk not realizing that kde or
> something is changing a few cache files here or there that might just
> ruin the burn. I've searched for talk about this and even emailed the
> the growisofs creator, but I have found/received no mention of this
> issue, other than one reference somewhere regarding mkisofs. Thanks for
> your help.



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