Re: Two wishes about growisofs

[scdbackup@gmx.net]

Hi,

> > 1) A working option  -use-the-force-luke=noload 
> It will be fixed.

Thanks. My apologies again for not testing it earlier.
I promise to watch out for the next growisofs version.


> > 2) A way to make raw writing via  growisofs -Z /dev/...=/... 
> >    ignore the size information of an ISO filesystem.
> 
> Well, as long as = is followed by /proc/self/fd/0 (as you report) volume 
> size from volume descriptor is the best bet...

It's a bit a matter of taste wether interpreting the
data stream content is the job of the burner program
... but of course i understand that growISOfs is a
plain burner only by evolution and not by design. :))


> >       667779072/669980672 (99.7%) @2.0x, remaining 0:00
> >       676986880/669980672 (101.0%) @1.9x, remaining 0:-2
> >       686227456/669980672 (102.4%) @2.0x, remaining 0:-5
> >      ...
> >      4021714944/669980672 (600.3%) @2.0x, remaining -20:-9
> >    which could make the user worry.
> 
> It uses media capacity as 100%... As volume size from volume descriptor 
> makes perfect sense for most users/applications I would be a bit 
> reluctant to just change the behaviour... What might make sense in this 
> case is to fall down to media capacity if input breaks expected limit... A.

That would be ok for my purposes. (Although -use-the-force-luke=isnotiso
might be a good idea, too.)

Thanks again for your work and my best new year's wishes to you. 


Have a nice day :)

Thomas