Re: UDF, ext2 and -o loop created images

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

> > > Of course, I am sure things get a lot more complicated by the filesystem
> > > "growing" or appending required for multisession recording of nonrewritable
> > > media. UDF may allow for a "growudffs" approach, but I doubt if ext2 can.
> > >      
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> > Sure, make a big empty file,  do a mke2fs, making the block size 4k, 
> > then mount it. Copy anything you want to it, and unmount it. Now burn it 
> > to a CD (or DVD).  Easy as that.
> >    
>
> I think you misunderstood here Bill (btw can you trim your replies?).
> Adding a few more files in another session and have all files of all
> sessions accessible when the disk is mounted requires explicit support
> by the filesystem. Ext2, and I suspect any other hard disk fs, can't do
> that. You can then only create a completely new disk. For CDs and a
> little scripting this beats any linux-packet writing by a long shot and
> may match adding another iso9660 session, but not for DVDs even if you
> have a very fast computer.
>
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Putting ext2 on a CD and adding to later are two problems, I provided 
one answer of two, since it sounded as if he was not clear on doing etc2 
to CD at all.

The last time I trimmed some unrelated paragraphs I got a private flame 
saying I took things out of context, and now you are unhappy because I 
didn't. If a question is over five lines long I'll answer the author 
directly. Since well over half this list is spam, unfiltered, I'm really 
tired of getting BS about on-topic posts.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979