My suggestion:
Create a new type, called Raw or Rawdisk (Capitalization and
hyphenization dont bother me now), for the simple reason that DVD+RW,
DVD-RAM, Hard Drives, Floppy Drives (like the 120MB floppies, 250MB
Iomega stuff, 2GB Jazz stuff, and others) will behave in the very same
way. This
Hi!
Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> Test to demonstrate the random WRITE access of the media (expected on
>> DVD+RW and DVD-RAM, unexpected otherwise)
>> goldstein# dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k count=1 of=/dev/cd0d seek=10
>> 1+0 records in
>> 1+0 records out
>> 1024 bytes transferred in 3.046 secs (336 b
>> I am trying to make Bacula work with my DVD+RW and DVD-RAM media, as raw
>> devices (similar to tape, but with random r/w support,
>
> Great idea. I'd like to see that as it would eliminate the need for
> volume part files and dvd-handler and growisofs. That part of Bacula
> is comparatively uns
Hi,
20.11.2008 02:50, Evaldo Gardenali wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to make Bacula work with my DVD+RW and DVD-RAM media, as raw
> devices (similar to tape, but with random r/w support,
Great idea. I'd like to see that as it would eliminate the need for
volume part files and dvd-handler and gro
Hi
I am trying to make Bacula work with my DVD+RW and DVD-RAM media, as raw
devices (similar to tape, but with random r/w support, which speeds up
appending and lseek64()ing to restore files). I have tested the access
method to properly work on Linux 2.6.x and NetBSD, and have been using
this
