Re: [gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ?

[Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>]

From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:45:08 +0100

I heard of better NOT to use DVDRAN as a harddisk, since it has a limited
lifetime (limited write cycles) and "normal" filesystems" does not
care about how often a certain block is written to.

You can kill a DVDRAM simply by writing too often to its organisation
data strukture without notice.

mount a dvdram "normal" and will be killed by simply accessing its
files via update to the access time data in the inode.

All this results in my initial posting.



> Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >  I would be very happy for any hint for the correct handling of
> >  DVDRAMs. I am using Linux Kernel 2.6.17.3 (vanilla source).
> 
> Just use DVDRAM as though it is a removable hard disk. With the DVDRAM
> in the drive, you can format it with mkfs, mount it, etc.
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