Bug#420310: nautilus-cd-burner should create an image before writing r/w-data

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 21 avril 2007 à 16:48 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> package: nautilus-cd-burner
> severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi!
> 
> As the title suggests, nautilus-cd-burner should create an image of the
> writable files I want to burn, then maybe check the image and then
> finally burn it.
> 
> Last week I wanted to burn the content of my $HOME-folder on a DVD. I
> inserted an empty DVD-R in my drive and n-c-b showed up. I
> drag-and-drop'ed my home folder into the n-c-b-window and clicked on
> `burn'. Of course I still had evolution open to receive emails and have
> been browsing the web with the epiphany browser while n-c-b did
> who-knows-what. So there has still been some r/w-action on the
> partition...
> 
> When the window showed up to tell me that n-c-b has successfully created
> the DVD I wanted to test it and found, that all files existed on the
> disc by name, but all had a byte size of 0. Only 3 files out of several
> thousand on this disc were actually readable at all!
> 
> I guess that this has to do with the changing of files in my home-folder
> during the burning process of exactly those files. I believe this would
> not have happened, if n-c-b had prepared a static image of those files
> and burned from this image instead of the writeable files themselves.
> However, this is nothing I should care about as a `normal user' IMHO...

I doubt this could help. The only thing it would change is generating
the image on the disc instead of burning it on the fly. In all cases it
looks like a bug in genisoimage, for which n-c-b is only a frontend.

Can reproduce the issue when telling n-c-b to generate a writable image,
then opening this image with file-roller, instead of burning a disc?

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