Hi, > I would have expected that what was true of CDs would be true with > DVDs.
So let us assume for now that DVDs are still safe in that aspect. At least no real problems have been reported. (Nevertheless i pad 300 kB) > My (likely outdated) experience passing a CD-sized chunk of bytes over > a pipe was quite unpleasant. It mad the system's performance quite > unpleasant. Hm. There was another report about pipes and growisofs mentioned by Peter Osterlund recently. http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/2003/12/msg00226.html I never experienced such unpleasant effects with vanilla SuSE 9.1. >From your answer to Volker: > ... where the dd does the truncating ... busted > the disk cache ... You did not use dd bs=1 , did you ? (Throughput on AMD 2600+: 1.6 MB/s = 1.2x DVD) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]