Woody DVD problem on powerpc

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

I've just tried to create a DVD image of woody for powerpc and it
failed at the mkisofs stage because of too many files on the disc:

...
Using LIBXA000 for  CD1/pool/contrib/libx/libxalan2-java (libxalan-java)
Using LIBXA000.DEB;1 for CD1/pool/contrib/libx/libxalan-java/libxalan-java-doc_1.2.2-2_all.deb (libxalan-java_1.2.2-2_all.deb)
Using LIBXA000.DEB;1 for CD1/pool/contrib/libx/libxalan2-java/libxalan2-java_2.0.1-1_all.deb (libxalan2-java-doc_2.0.1-1_all.deb)
too many files for HFS volume
mkhybrid: no error
mkhybrid: No such file or directory
make: *** [bin-images] Error 1
...

Looking through the mkisofs code, I've found the code that reports the
failure, and the cause is here in write.c:

        /*
         * crude attempt to prevent overflows - HFS can only cope with a
         * maximum of about 65536 forks (actually less) - this will trap cases
         * when we have far too many files
         */
        if (count >= 65536)
                return (-1);
        else
                return (size);

This seems to be a brick wall. Is HFS really this crap?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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