Re: mkisofs error
Be _very_ careful, genisoimage is full of bugs and creates defective filesystems. Do not use it, genisoimage is unmaintained and does not even support files > 4 GB! Other well known bugs in genisoimage create defective directory entries for "." and "..". This is because genisoimage is based on a 5 year old version of mkisofs with additional bugs added that never have been in the original software. Mkisofs has no known bugs and is well maintained. I see no reason why mkisofs should be the cause for your problem... Well you did not describe the problem in a way that could allow to analyse the background. Possible reasons for your problem could be read errors on the medium, check using: readcd f=/dev/null whether the medium is fully readable. Another possible reason could be a problem in the filesystem driver of the kernel. If a file gives a read error, there should be a kernel message related to the problem. If you are able to extract the file using "isoinfo" using the ISO-9660 name of the file (be careful not to use the defective "isoinfo" that comes with "cdrkit"), the problem is definitely not in mkisofs. BTW: do you use a recent or an outdated mkisofs? The latest version of mkisofs is 2.01.01a66 and FreeBSD by default unfortunately distributes extremely outdated versions. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: mkisofs error
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: My data backups to DVD use mkisofs to build ISO9660 DVDs like so: mkisofs -J -joliet-long -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points dir1 dir2 dir3 and then piped into cdrecord. However, I found a problem with one file that casts some doubt on the whole process. The file is named img_0185-6x4crop.jpg and is 3,309,906 bytes. On the hard drive, it reads fine. The filename is present on the DVD, but the file always gives a read error: # file img_0185-6x4crop.jpg img_0185-6x4crop.jpg: ERROR: cannot read `img_0185-6x4crop.jpg' (Input/output error) It's not a one-time error; every DVD always has the same problem. What is going wrong? A poison filename? Following up: growisofs with the same parameters has no problems with that file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Aloha Warren, Manolis Kiagias pointed me to growisofs a while ago and I have had no problems making dvd's since from the command line. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: mkisofs error
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: My data backups to DVD use mkisofs to build ISO9660 DVDs like so: mkisofs -J -joliet-long -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points dir1 dir2 dir3 and then piped into cdrecord. However, I found a problem with one file that casts some doubt on the whole process. The file is named img_0185-6x4crop.jpg and is 3,309,906 bytes. On the hard drive, it reads fine. The filename is present on the DVD, but the file always gives a read error: # file img_0185-6x4crop.jpg img_0185-6x4crop.jpg: ERROR: cannot read `img_0185-6x4crop.jpg' (Input/output error) It's not a one-time error; every DVD always has the same problem. What is going wrong? A poison filename? Following up: growisofs with the same parameters has no problems with that file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"