Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin
Paul Serice <paul@serice.net> wrote:
> The obvious thing to try is to put the root directory (more or less)
> immediately after the PVD. With read-only media, this can be a
> problem because there is no way to go back and fill in missing
> information -- like the size of files.
>
> So when the size of stdin is not known in advance, there isn't much
> choice: the PVD must be written very early, and the PVD must specify
> the location of the root directory.
This is why mkisofs implements -stream-media-size since 6 years ;-)
> Incidentally, this is why burning iso9660 images to DVDs was broken on
> linux for so long. Software put the root file system at the end of
> the media. For a DVD, the end of media is greater than 4GB which
> could not be seen because linux was using a 32-bit, byte-oriented
> inode scheme.
This is wrong.
Jörg
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