From 5b6aab575efd0961978bd4f0d555acc7e3618270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:49:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Polished documentation --- cdrskin/cdrskin.1 | 3 ++- cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 b/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 index 26ddd01..c77a9e4 100644 --- a/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 +++ b/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 @@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ The only restriction towards CD-R[W] is the lack of support for -audio tracks. Multiple tracks per session are permissible. .br The write modes for DVD+R resemble those with DVD-R except that with DVD+R -each track gets wrapped in an own session. +each track gets wrapped in an own session. There is no -dummy writing with +DVD+R. .br Quite deliberately write mode -sao insists in the tradition of a predicted track size and blank media, whereas -tao writes the tracks open ended and diff --git a/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt b/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt index 7a00c77..c61729b 100644 --- a/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt +++ b/cdrskin/wiki_plain.txt @@ -119,6 +119,29 @@ multi-session. (The default behavior of cdrskin deems me to be preferrable.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- +assert_write_lba= allows to ensure that the start block address which +was used with the formatter program (e.g. mkisofs -C) matches the start block +address which will be used by the upcoming burn. + +E.g. cdrskin aborts with an error message if +{{{ +assert_write_lba=0 +}}} +is given but an appendable media is to be burned which would start ati +block 68432. + + +An ISO-9660 file system image must be prepared according to a particular +block address on media. If the prepared address and the real address on media +do not match then the filesystem will not be mountable or may even cause system +trouble. + +A sequential archive format like afio or star will not necessarily need such +a coordination of addresses. It might nevertheless be confusing to a reader +if the archive does not start at block 0. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + fifo_start_at= is a throughput enhancer for unsteady data streams like they are produced by a compressing archiver program when piping to CD on-the-fly. It makes better use of the general property of a FIFO