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Re: OT: Tales of future past: the bluray BD-RE (rewritable) for data storage

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On 27/08/2012 14:32, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>
> I use bluray BD-RE (rewritable) for data storage,
> where data storage of course includes multimedia, and software.
>
>
> Whenever you look at 'how it is done' you see the ISO9660 filesystem.
> I do not particularly like that filesystem, all its changes over time, its structure etc.
> I have hundreds of normal DVDs with ISO9660 data made with mkisofs program.
>
> Linux has many good filesystems, so why should I use ISO9660?
>

First, although iso9660 might not be the "perfect" filesystem, it is not 
bad, works fine with Linux, and is quite efficient for a read-only file 
system, especially for a small number of large files.  I see no 
particular reason to change it for this sort of usage.

Secondly, bluray disks (eraseable or not) cost vastly more per GB than 
DVD-R, or even hard disks.  I can't think of any good reason to use them 
as a storage medium until they come down in price by a factor of 10 or so.

But of course, use them as you want - you are demonstrating the 
flexibility of Linux here, even if it is not a usage that makes sense to me.

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OT:  Tales of future past: the bluray BD-RE (rewritable) for data storage Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-27 12:32 +0000
  Re: OT:  Tales of future past: the bluray BD-RE (rewritable) for data storage David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-08-27 16:33 +0200
    Re: OT:  Tales of future past: the bluray BD-RE (rewritable) for data storage Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-27 15:20 +0000
  Re: OT:  Tales of future past: the bluray BD-RE (rewritable) for data storage Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de - 2013-03-28 13:31 +0000

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