Re: How to burn DVD to multiple drives?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:06:45AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>> mkisofs -o some_file .....
>> 
>> cdrecord dev=1,2,0 -dao -v some_file &
>> cdrecord dev=1,3,0 -dao -v some_file &
>> cdrecord dev=2,0,0 -dao -v some_file &
>
>That's the obvious, but has the downside that each burning process reads
>the file, potentially wasting a lot of I/O bandwidth.

If you start those in parallel, the system will just be reading the
second and later copies straight from the buffer cache; no I/O
involved, surely...?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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