June 2002 - Packet Writing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

speed on packetwriting?
by koalasoft＠gmx.de 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Hallo , one question: without writecaching i need about 40 minutes, to copy 180MB (/usr/src/linux) to CDRW. Burner is a Teac 524 E (24/10/32), the CDRW was 4X writable. (kernel 2.4.18) Is that the normal speed, or does something going wrong? Greetings-- Email:KOALASOFT@GMX.DE

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speed on packetwriting?
by koalasoft＠gmx.de 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Hallo , one question: without writecaching i need about 40 minutes, to copy 180MB (/usr/src/linux) to CDRW. Burner is a Teac 524 E (24/10/32), the CDRW was 4X writable. (kernel 2.4.18) Is that the normal speed, or does something going wrong? Greetings-- Email:KOALASOFT@GMX.DE

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Status for a Total Newbie
by Greg Freemyer 04 Jun '02

04 Jun '02

Guys, I just came across your project and it looks pretty interesting. I have a need to write a bunch of images to a CD/DVD on a regular basis, then mail it off every week or so. It would be ideal to do this piece-meal and I gather that is what this project is all about. I have looked through the last few months archives, but I don't see a recent overview and the sourceforge site seems out of date. i.e. No news in almost a year. I have a couple of basic questions: You obviously provide patches against the vanilla kernel. Do you also tend to provide patches against any of the vendor kernels. (maybe SuSE's since the sponsor the mailing list.) Is their a vendor kernel that already includes these patches. Roughly how big is your patch. i.e. xfs touches 3500 kernel files. More than I want to think about, but SuSE has it in their latest kernels, so I have switched to SuSE. If the sourceforge site is current, the current release is 0.0.2, is that indicative of the quality? How portable is the UDF. i.e. If I save a bunch of jpg images to a CD, is there any way to read them off other than having another UDF Patched Linux box? Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com

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04 Jun '02

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Re: Status for a Total Newbie
by "Andrew Henschel: ahenschel_at_comcast_dot_net"＠comcast.net 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

Greg Freemyer wrote: > I just came across your project and it looks pretty interesting. > > I have a need to write a bunch of images to a CD/DVD on a regular basis, then > mail it off every week or so. It would be ideal to do this piece-meal and I > gather that is what this project is all about. > Considering the enormous potential utility of packet writing in general, I am surprised that this project does not attract a greater amount of attention. Perhaps most people only use their CD-RW drives to rip and store all that insipid Grade B music that floods the commercial market. What a waste of digital technology! > I have looked through the last few months archives, but I don't see a recent > overview and the sourceforge site seems out of date. i.e. No news in almost a > year. The project is apparently still active, but, as with most things in the world of Open Source, the user has to fend for himself. Unfortunately, documentation is frequently lacking or non-existent, but the benefits of "free" software still, I believe, far outweigh the disadvantages. > If the sourceforge site is current, the current release is 0.0.2, is that > indicative of the quality? For me, it certainly does the job. The last time that I burned a large amount of data, I experienced no errors. But I still do a check of the data using a program like diff. However, the routines can only handle CD-RW and not CD-R. Hopefully this will change in the future. > How portable is the UDF. i.e. If I save a bunch of jpg images to a CD, is > there any way to read them off other than having another UDF Patched Linux > box? Any system that can read the UDF file format should be able to read your disks. Users have to be aware of these subtleties, however, and this is not always guaranteed. Good luck on your implementation. Andrew Henschel

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