Re: architectures, mkhybrid/mkisofs, mk* parameters, joliet fs ?
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:56:35PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> > Ben Collins wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > d) enable or not joliet support in the cd images ? "-J" ...
> > > > this will not work with the first sparc image, as it needs mkisofs,
> > > > and mkisofs does not know about joliet (or did that change ?).
> > >
> > > SPARC does not need joilet. The platform it is aimed at is Unix specific
> > > and thus, rockridge is all that is needed.
> >
> > And what to do if I want to read it under Win98/NT (eg. for documentation
> > purpose) ? If Joliet support does not hurt at boot/install, I guess it could
> > be added too (sources CD will have Joliet enabled, btw).
>
> It could be enabled. It just never was for sparc it seems. How much
> overhead is joilet?
It's just a duplication of the directory structure. I'd say it's 2 MB overhead
at most (usually much less; also depends on the number of files on the disk).
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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