Re: formatting a cdr

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:00:30 -0700
RB <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> This is something I've never quite understood, not being a
> physical-layer guru.  It seems quite arbitrary that one cannot
> packet-write a UDF-2.x filesystem on to write-once media under Linux.
>

I am no expert on the matter either, but I do not think that
reason is not totally arbitrary.  Writing to CD-R involves
variable-sized packets while writing to CD-RW involves fixed-length
packets.  (Or is it the opposite?)  The difference between
the two methods is the reason why the Linux kernel hasn't
(yet) included the ability to handle CD-R packets.

There isn't much more I can say about this.  Maybe some
others with more background can comment.

FP