>From: Frank Hage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>: But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media.
>One advantage I find is the ability to burn directly from NFS mounted
>partitions. It's slow but it works well. I've got gobs and gobs of data
>spread across many machines, many filled to capacity. It takes me less
>time and a lot less work to cross mount our aging workstations and burn
>directly than it does to copy and create iso files, and then burn.
I see no relation between DVD- vs. DVD+ and NFS.
The write speed does not matter if you use BUrnProof or packet writing.
Of course DVD+RW _only_ supports packet writing...
>Other advantages are the ability to completely fill the disks (> 4 GB
>iso files are a problem on 32 bit systems) and not needing free space
>for the disk images.
It looks like you are confused.
>Although its possible to pipe mkisofs output to cdrecord and avoid
>producing an image, (which I usually do for CDR), buffer underruns
>are a problem when the files live across on a NFS partition.
See above.
Jörg
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