[Gllug] DVD-RAM on Linux

[Neil Fryer]

Tethys,

Aren't you a bit farfrom home?   :-)
Please mail me off the list.
If I have the right Tethys, then I think I'm seeing one to many "G"'s in GLUG. :-)

xyberpix


-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk on behalf of Tethys
Sent: Wed 8/11/2004 5:16 AM
To: Greater London Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] DVD-RAM on Linux 
 

John Winters writes:

>I can get so far - "fdisk /dev/hdc" allows me to partition the drive,
>but when I try "mke2fs /dev/hdc1" I get a "no such device" error. 

My DVD-RAM had two LUNs, the first as a read only device, the second as
a read/write device. In order to be able to write to the thing, I needed
to have CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN configured in my kernel. As for choice of
filesystem, UDF would probably be a better option, but I wasn't doing
anything particularly clever, and I just used ext2 on mine. But DVD-RAM
media has a much lower read/write cycle lifetime than a hard drive, so
ext2/3 is a poor choice if you're using it for anything other than the
occasional backup.

Tet
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