Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to find time to continue work on this any time soon. If anyone wants to pick up the project, send me an email (address can be found at the end of the page

Packet Writing on Linux

Packet Writing allows you to use a CD or DVD like you would a floppy disk. Files can be copied onto disc, copied, deleted, and as soon as the disc is ejected, it can be inserted into another computer and similar operations can be performed (no actual burning process required).

As of Linux 2.6.10, we now have 3 fancy ways that we can use packet writing for CD's/DVD's through the kernel. I aim to improve/simplify the userspace access to these writing techniques, and to make the functionality easily available under Linux desktop environments (GNOME/KDE).

The Packet Writing Methods

Desktop Support

After ensuring that we have full support in user-space for the packet writing capabilities, I plan to implement this functionality into GNOME/KDE. I have not given this much thought yet but will probably involve creating device formatting utilities for each environment.
- Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Updated 2005-02-20