On 9 Jun 2002, ulrich mensfeld wrote:
Hallo Peter Osterlund ,
I did a similar experiment with kernel 2.4.19-pre9 and packet-2.4.19-pre4. I created an ext2 filesystem with block size 2048 on a CDRW disc. I
? How does that work? Can we use cdrw like a normal ext2 harddrive? How?
Yes, the pktcdvd module makes the cdrw look like a normal block device, so it should be possible to put any filesystem on top of it. The only potential problem is that the block size used by the file system must be supported by the block device. This is what I used for the test: pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/scd0 /sbin/mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/pktcdvd0 mount -t ext2 /dev/pktcdvd0 /mnt/tmp/ -onoatime By the way, the ext2 filesystem seemed to be quite a lot faster than udf when unpacking the kernel source. Is the udf filesystem using synchronous metadata updates or something? -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340