[tlug] Re: Share CD burner on Samba?

[Tobias Diedrich <td@example.com>]

Edward Middleton wrote:

> The burner shareing part basically doesn't work because the atapi
> drivers mostly dont support packet writting so you can't write to a udf
> "DirrectCD" filesystem on your cd burner in linux.

Hmm, a short search turned up this:

From http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/42770 :
|You need "packet writing" support to make this work. The patches are
|available here. Also check out http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net !! You
|will need to recompile the kernel with UDF read and write support ( look
|under filesystems). Be CAUTIOUS.. the all the things described above (
|apart from UDF read support) are experimental and hence dangerous. Also
|the patches seem to be older than they should be. Good luck!!

Also, the patch on
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/packet/
seems to be newer than the one on the sourceforge page...

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