> This contains two incorrect claims:
> 
> 1)    Mkisofs does not have such a limitation, the
>       ISO-9660 standard _does_ have a different limitation:
> 
>       The ISO-9660 standard limits the number of _parent_
>       directories (not just directories) to 2 ^ 16. The
>       limitation of the number of parent directories is 
>       rarely hit.....
> 
> 2)    As mkisofs does not have a limitation and as only DOS
>       enforces the ISO-9660 standard limit, I see no problem.
> 
> If you like to go beyond the ISO-9660 standard limitations, I recommend you
> to read the mkisofs man page and to use the "-no-limit-pathtables" option.

Thanks for the clarification.  In this particular case, exceeding the
parent directory limit was a side-effect of including a directory of
cached file content.  This directory doesn't need to be in the ISO image.  

The workaround you're suggesting may be useful in the future; however,
in this case we just want to remove the cached content from the image.

Thanks,

-j
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