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

[Fabian Greffrath]

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...

Thank you!

cheers,
Fabian