Re: [Nbd] NBD+CDRW/DVDRW

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@...3...>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:17:22AM -0300, Edson Vinicius Schmitt wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to burn cds or dvds via de nbd.
> The machine owning the device exports it /dev/hdc
> The machine trying to burn the cd captures it /dev/nbd*
> And burn it with something like this cdrecord dev=/dev/nbd...
> 
> I've tried it but cdrecord doesn't reconize /dev/nbd to be an cdrw device. Am
> I missing anything here?

Yes.

To write stuff to a CDRW drive, you need to perform some ioctl() calls
on it.

nbd does not export that; it only supports read() and write().

In other words, this isn't possible. It /might/ be possible with ENBD,
I'm not sure.

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