> Something which IMHO would be much more interesting would be a cdrfs, like Spica
> CD Manager (Windows) or RSJ CD Writer (OS/2). You mount the CDR, it allocates a
> buffer on hard disk (20MB default), you cp, mv, ls, rm on this mounted CDR, it
> writes to the buffer and when the buffer is full, it burns a track on CDR. If
> the buffer keeps filling (e.g. a cp -a job), it just keeps burning, if the
> buffer empties, it closes the track and waits for it to fill up again. For file
> system it allocates a 1MB track at the beginning of the CDR which is being
> written at umount time.
Hmm, nice. It might be nice to do this in generic way: kind of overlay
fs. You have local hdd and nfs. You decide to have 20MB cache for nfs
on local disk...
If you went for special case of cdrfs, userland solution would
probably be acceptable and not-so-hard to do
(http://atrey/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html).
Pavel
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