Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:07:01 +0100 | From | Alan Jenkins <> | Subject | Re: cd burning: kernel / userspace? |
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Wakko Warner wrote:
>>Sorry, I'm not very good at this list / person CC stuff. I sent a reply >>to Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, but forgot to CC to list. Contents as follows: >> >>I'm not sure this is necessary. Can't you just do: >> >># dump -0 -B 700000 -u -z3 /home -f -| cdrecord /dev/hdb - >> >>dump and cdrecord allow you to use "-" as a filename to indicate that >>output shoud be written to stdout and input should be read from stdin >>respectively. >> >> > >Yes, but if I was to understand it right, dump will close/reopen at "700000" >(whatever that is, 700000kb?). That won't work with cdrecord since it's >expecting a single input stream, not many seperated by a pause. I'd >consider it more like using tar with the multiple tape option. When it is >finished writing to a tape, it'll wait for the user to physically change >tapes and start writing at the beginning of the new tape. > > > I get it now. BTW, if dump can determine when the end of the media is reached it will close / reopen automatically, so it might also be possible to drop the -B option and make full use of media of different sizes (you can backup more data to an 80 minute CDR, less to a "business card" format one). You couldn't do that with "playing double-buffering games using -F to switch around". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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