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 1GglSn-0005jA-71 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:07:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA5H562e013779; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:05:06 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA5H2qAl025966 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:02:52 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E25D644DB for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:02:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.798 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.798 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.160, BAYES_00=-2.599, NO_REAL_NAME=0.961] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bfD9MjYN1brM for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B1A6472E for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GglO4-0005zf-RB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:02:24 +0100 Received: from c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([67.163.25.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:02:24 +0100 Received: from reader by c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:02:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Span data DVD Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:02:11 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87u01dygh8.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87fyd3b8tj.fsf@newsguy.com> <20061101150355.263002aa.hilse@web.de> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-163-25-192.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ssSdIxOjYXCUpNNAkYvQUraI+k= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 13bdf52c-ece1-4e1f-86a5-be05b20c9c84 X-Archives-Hash: a182d7878c06ce4e0c7cbd5dc0907b1c Hans-Werner Hilse writes: > In order to give a more specific advice, please tell us about the kind > of data you want to put on that DVD. I remember that there were tools > that calculate an optimum distribution of files of different sizes so > that a given amount of media space is optimally used. Probably > something in Perl, but unfortunately I don't remember... The data in this case consistes of thousands of photos in various formats in a structured directory system. It would be good not to split a single top level directory across 2 DVD. In fact I guess that would be nearly a requirement else one might have to mount more than one DVD to view a single directory and would never know which ones. So sonething smart enough to judge the sizes of dierctories and put only as much as the DVD will hold but not splitting a directlry. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list