Re: ISO9660 file naming (limits)
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:12:16PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> I want to make a cd archive of my (past) school work and remove it
> from my hard drive. The problem lies in name/path length limits for
> ISO9660 filesystems. 'mkisofs -R -J' yields output such as
> Using FINDR000.HH;1 for ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow.hh (FindRoomWindow_glade.hh)
> Using FINDR000.CC;1 for ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow_glade.cc (FindRoomWindow.cc)
> When I loopback mount the ISO to inspect it, the file apears normal
> with the complete path and name.
>
> My question is, what does the output from mkisofs mean, and will the
> CD have all of the files correctly named?
>
Why don't you avoid problem by using tar on reasonably sized chunks of
the file tree, and name the tar files concisely?
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Paul E Condon
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