Problems with cd burner

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue May 24 18:01:15 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> CD burners *aren't* conventional read-write storage, because they can be
> written to only in very restricted ways.  Linux opted to handle this by
> requiring that you mount them read-only, and do writing to them using
> special programs.

So did every other OS ever written, since iso9660 really can't be
changed on the fly.

Lennart Sorensen
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