In FC2 (and all prior releases), cdrecord reports that my drives support burnfree but it's never enabled unless I tell to enable it. Wouldn't it be safer for these options to be enabled by default whenever they're available?
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This is an extract from wodim's man pages (cdrecord is a symbolic link) for "burnfree" option: "This option is deprecated and is mentioned here for documentation purposes only. The BURN-Free feature is enabled by default if the drive supports it. However, use of BURN-Free may cause decreased burning quality. Therefore it can be useful to disable it for certain purposes, eg. when creating a master copy for mass CD production." For more information see "man wodim". So this bug is already resolved in upstream as well as in recent Fedora versions.