Re: DVD-RAM questions
Robert Epprecht wrote:
> I have a couple of questions about DVD-RAM on Debian Sarge,
> kernel 2.4.27-3-686
>
>
> If I format DVD-RAMs with ext2 most things work fine but there
> are two minor problems:
>
> When I shut down the system without manually umounting the DVD-RAM
> it does not get cleanly umounted like a hd or somesuch.
>
> When I'm formating a medium the system gets real slow and sometimes
> it does not react on user input any more for some time.
>
>
> Following some discussions on debian lists I got the impression
> that udf would be a 'better' filesystem for DVD-RAM.
> Is this true and why?
UDF was designed for the Write-Once, Read-Many DVD-ROM/RAM/RW. Just use
udf. Any compuer with a DVD drive can read udf; ext2/3 is designed for
read-write filesystems and only works on Linux.
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