>
> I just burned a series of CDs using images mounted on NFS. I had really
> questioned doing this, since the machines are not dedicated, the packets
> go through many routers, etc, but it worked.
>
> I note this because there was some discussion of things like this some
> time ago. I measured the worst case observed performance by doing a
> series of 5MB reads at 20 sec intervals. The worst observed case was
> ~5.5x data rate, so I burned at 4x (speed=4) and it worked fine.
>
> While I don't recommend this practice, it is sometimes useful, and
> faster than pulling a copy of each image to the machine with the burner.
I've had excellent result over NFS with both ISO9660 images
and audio CDs. The network is switched 100baseTx and not
too heavily loaded though (and no routers).
The burning machine was fairly low-powered (P5/166 64M FPM
DRAM) at the time and runs four SCSI burners at 4x. The
NFS server and burning machine are running Linux.
I often burn single disks from Samba exports from a Linux
box without problems.
Jon Plews.
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