Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:04:52 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <magallon@unizar.es>
To: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Is there something like multi-device fan out ?
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Hi...

I suspect this sounds like a strange question.
A friend has a company that distributes his own catalogs on CD-ROM, and wants
to build a mass-burning box (something like 8 CD/DVD burners), running linux.

The problem is how to burn an image at the same time to all writers.
I could write a script, but I think this would launch 8 reads on the same
iso file, all desynchronized, that will drive nuts the disk.
Is there any way to get all the /dev/sr? devices and build something like
a fan-out device, or like a RAID1-CDROM or whatever ?
I suppose it has to be done at the kernel level...

TIA

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