Problems with cd burner

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > 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.

Remember that what the user program sees is directories and files, not a
raw ISO 9660 disk.  It's not utterly unthinkable to put a layer of
abstraction in there that would make it resemble a writable filesystem,
with certain restrictions; I haven't investigated the details for this
case, but I suspect it could be done.  It would, however, be a lot of
work, and there *would* be restrictions on how you could write to it --
you couldn't *treat* it as an ordinary disk filesystem even if it looked
like one at first glance -- so it's not clear that it's worthwhile. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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