Re: [debian-knoppix] Improved cloop driver

["Tim Botzelmann" <botzelma@ist.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hi Michael,

Michael Cohen sagte:
> Also you will
> need to know in advance how big the uncompressed image is so you can make
> a
> large enough empty index at the start - this may not be easy to know if
> you
> just do a mkisofs for example,  and pipe the result to the compressor.

mkisofs does tell the size of the image if started with the option
"-print-size" added, so the time penalty wouldn't be that big if this was
needed (just going through all the files and counting the blocks needed
for the image).

Greetings,

Tim

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