[ale] Anyone here who is good with kernel programming?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 02/12/2010 11:11 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 03:48 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 14:14 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>>> I'm finding myself (again!) running into the annoying limitation of not
>>> being able to write directly to optical media without third-party
>>> programs.
>
> Why the limitation on third party programs?
>
> A search on freshmeat for dvd backup shows lots of projects, such as
> scdbackup and multicd.
>
> I haven't used it, but both Bacula and Amanda claim to support optical
> media as backup targets.
>
> If this computer has a graphical interface, I've read that latest
> version of Brasero can split a project across multiple disks.

Because this is a server system where bare essentials really are the 
only appropriate thing to do.

It seems to me that this is something that should not require anything 
more than basic Unix tools.  Now, I could write some stuff and put 
additional stuff on the server, but I think I'd rather go for what I 
think is the right solution---treat a normal block device that has the 
caveat of only being able to be written sequentially and only when the 
disc is already blank.  That makes sense to me.  Does that not make 
sense to you?  If not, I'd like to hear why---it might change my thought 
on it.

That said, I've had systems installed that worked this way (FreeBSD in 
particular) and I really liked that I could just use standard tools to 
do standard things with optical media.  It was nice, quick, and 
efficient, and I don't see why that should not be the case in the OS 
that I tend to use more than any other.

	--- Mike

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