There are so many angles with packet-writing under GNUnix -- some technical, some political IMO -- that I'll keep it really simple in the beginning here (I'm a firm believer in the working-out of thorny issues by a process of successive approximations; recursion if-you-will...), as regards my packet-writing problems: What is the bug (I've read it discussed by googling, but not IMO solved) that causes failed writes of files & directories to a UDF filesystem, with the date 'Dec 31 1969' irregardless (which of course cannot be subsequently removed)? It seems to be related to my next question: the "hard limit" I apparently have of < 38MB of data I can write to the CDRW at any one time (not keeping it simple, am I..? ;) I'm stuck using lk2.4.20 at this point, as the problems seem the same -- and worse -- under lk2.6.x. -- grok.