Re: Non-RW media; WORM hopes

Phillip Susi <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:27:30 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.packet-writing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
RB wrote:
> After looking at all the dates on the docs I can find, that seems to
> be the latest consensus.  However, having browsed through pktcdvd.c,
> it would seem there are several acknowledgments of/facilities for -R
> media, so again I ask - what lacks?  Additions to the pktcdvd driver,
> userspace tools, or something else entirely?

IIRC, what is lacking is filesystem support for WORM media.  In 
otherwords, the UDF filesystem driver tries to rewrite blocks on the disc.

For your purposes, I would suggest that you don't use a filesystem on 
the disk and just write the raw log file out, or maybe a tar data 
stream.  If you pipe it though dd to reblock you should be able to write 
it directly to the cd-r without pktcdvd.