Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:16:32 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: noc@hdk5.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, wblock@wonkity.com Subject: Re: mkisofs error Message-ID: <4ad6da60.qvbHHxwf0N70A4ac%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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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 BTW: do you use a recent or an outdated mkisofs? The latest version of mkisofs is 2.01.01a66 and FreeBSD by default unfortunately distributes extremely outdated versions.....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:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
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