Re: CD-RW as a normal hard disk?

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:32:21 +0000

mandree@dosis.uni-dortmund.de said:
> Please note that CD-RW don't have as many read/write cycles per block
> as hard disks have, you will probably very soon lose your
> administration blocks on your CD - which is basically why you don't
> use ext2/fat/whatever is normally used on hard disks. CD-RW is
> probably not meant as a hard drive replacement anyways.

Nonetheless, it should be possible, shouldn't it?

Does that the Linux SCSI code has to be tricked into presenting it as a DASD,
rather than as a CD-ROM? Or can it just be done with 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/sr0'?

> I cannot help you with your other question "what file system to use".

How about something on top of FTL? FTL was designed for use with flash memory,
with large block sizes and limited re-use. Sound relevant?

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