Re: Repeatability of mkisofs?
Michael Shell <list1@michaelshell.org> wrote:
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> I've got an interesting one. I keep track of the md5sums of all the images
> I burn. Now, it just so happened that I had deleted an image file that
> I later needed. So, I rebuilt a new image via mkisofs from the exact same
> directory structure used to create the old image. Now, the two images had
> the exact same byte count, but, much to my surprise, they differed with
> respect to their md5sums! Why is this?
ISO-9660 has 4 timestamps and in the PVC one is the current time
Jörg
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