Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-21 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say: Curt Howland wrote: Is there a reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some other fsck-able format? Have you thought about a simple log-structured filesystem?

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Curt Howland wrote: On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say: Curt Howland wrote: Is there a reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some other fsck-able format? Have you thought about a simple log-structured filesystem?

Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Having fun with DVD-RAM. Well, no, it's not fun. Disk errors. Lost files. It's also mind-bendingly SLOW! But slow would be something I'd put up with, if it weren't for the disk errors. Obviously, I bought bad disks. Oh well, I've only lost

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Curt Howland wrote: Is there a way to do a file system check on a UDF disk? Next, while I realize that UDF spreads the writes around and makes the disks last longer, I am using them for long-term archive rather than something like a daily backup. Is there a reason anyone can think of for not

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:42:59 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: (...) This was an interesting error during my efforts: = # fsck /dev/sr0 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 fsck: fsck.udf: not found fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.udf for /dev/sr0 = Is there a way to do a file system