UBIFS over DVD+RW

Don’t ask why. I just though it might be a cool idea.

So what’s the catch? Packet writing over CD/DVD-/+RW media is pretty much the same as writing to a block device. The only bad thing is that:

  • Writes MUST be aligned
  • Writes must be of a fixed packet size
  • Before reading you must issue a flush command.

To hide this from the upper level pktcdvd module exists that assembles packets and sends them to the media. Well, this whole pktcdvd machinery reminded me of a NAND device actually, so I wondered if we could actually make an MTD device out of a CD or DVD. AND run UBIFS on top of it. (Or yaffs2. whatever). Details&code under the cut

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