Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!uunet!rosevax!cipric!dad From: dad@cipric.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Filesystem/archive formats for WORM optical disks Message-ID: <75@cipric.mn.org> Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 09:46:18 EDT Article-I.D.: cipric.75 Posted: Thu Aug 13 09:46:18 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 08:47:38 EDT References: <1775@kontron.UUCP> <212@casemo.UUCP> Reply-To: dad@ciprico.mn.org (Dan A. Dickey) Organization: Ciprico, Inc. Plymouth, MN 55441 Lines: 6 Xref: utgpu comp.periphs:474 comp.unix.wizards:3442 I guess I was under the impression (and still am) that WORM drives would be good for doing things like: dd if=/dev/rrf0g of=/dev/rworm99 bs=32k And then mounting /dev/worm99 read-only... Of course this presumes that rf0g is a usable good file-system that you would like to preserve on optical media.