Hallo Peter Osterlund ,
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
Here i get allways the error: Input/output error while trying to determine filesystem size What could that be? i deleted the cdrw prior to this try with cdrecord blank=fast speed=4, and it is a 700MB CDRW. my mke2fs is version 1.27 By the way: i'm using MD 8.2 with devfs filesystem, and i have a device /dev/pktcdvd, without the '0'. Could that being an issue? Should i create another blockdevice pktcdvd0? Speed-issues: Yesterday i made another try with udf, on a fresh 700MB 4x CDRW. Copying the kerneltree with cp -a /usr/src/linux /mnt/cdwriter needs about 80 minutes for about 150MB! (and as estimated, there were corrupted files again on the cd) Greetings-- Email:KOALASOFT@GMX.DE