Paul Serice <[email protected]> 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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
