Re: Q: state of the art in burning a BD

[Rob Bogus <rob23@tmr.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    
> > since Christmas I have a blu-ray writer.
> >      
> Congrats.
>
>    
> > What is the state-of-the-art in generating a BD
> > especially when it comes to generating files of size greater than 4 Gb?
> > P.S.  Nero-linux writes an UDF system which can be mounted by Linux.
> > mkisofs says it has only UDF support in alpha state.
> >      
> There are content format specifications for Blu-ray entertainment (video)
> disks. But elsewise you are free to store on them any filesystem or
> archive format that you deem suitable. As with CD or DVD.
>
> I myself use ISO 9660 (level 3) with Rock Ridge extensions via my program
> xorriso. Currently it can create images with files of up to 400 GB.
> This limit is artificial, though. The only hard limit is 8 TB overall
> image size (32 bit block address, block size 2048 = 2 exp 11).
>
> With BD-RE you may create read-write filesystems and run them like
> giant floppies resp. slow USB sticks.
> This media type resembles much DVD-RAM or formatted CD-RW. All UDF
> examples which mention these media and state should apply to BD-RE too.
> Examples for DVD+RW or formatted DVD-RW should work too.
> On my GNU/Linux system i have
>    /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt
>
> BD-R media media resemble DVD+R (and somewhat CD-R).
> You will need a burn program for writing them, and a formatter program to
> produce the image that shall be written.
>
> I prefer to use BD-RE this way, too. Throughput is much better. Especially
> if one disables automatic checkreading.
>    

I can see disabling checkreading if you don't care if you can't read 
what you wrote, such as video, where a bit or two or even on 32k sector 
isn't going to spoil the use. But in general I write a boatload of data 
on the media to preserve it, and would happily trade double the time for 
more reliable operation. For critical operation an additional software 
protection program like dvdisaster would be useful as well, there are 
something you really don't want to lose.

Just my thinking on picking the right speed and size vs. reliability point.

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