From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fytwc-0004h8-04 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:16:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k67HD31N003833; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:13:03 GMT Received: from localhost (p54852388.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.133.35.136]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k67H200s030692 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:02:00 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FytiJ-0002Yw-Ar; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:01:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:01:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20060707.190159.74748516.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, graham@gmurray.org.uk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ? From: Meino Christian Cramer In-Reply-To: <877j2ppdnv.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> References: <20060707.165412.74743594.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> <877j2ppdnv.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5fecb824-0420-4fd9-a980-dbe4a7e24351 X-Archives-Hash: c0dff44302e8d755e101cb54a1ec6f4c From: Graham Murray 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 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. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list