Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 1997 07:02:20 -0500 (EST) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: CD Filesystem still broken! |
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Gordon Chaffee wrote:
> Steven N. Hirsch writes: > > While attempting to integrate the Joliet patch into isofs, I found > this sort of behavior. The problem that I found was that if a directory > entry crossed a 2048 byte boundary under certain circumstances, it > would skip all files until the next 2048 byte boundary. This showed > up quite readily by doing a ls -1 | wc -l on a 2.0.30 system and then > on a 2.0.59 system. The numbers of files were drastically different. > > However, the Joliet patch included this particular fix (or at least > I think it did as I haven't actually checked the isofs behavior in > 2.1.60). I'll take a further look into the problem if you send me > a partial dump of your cd. > > dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1024 count=2048 | gzip -c -f | uuencode cd_data.gz > cd_data.uu > > Send me cd_data.uu, and I'll see what I can find. >
Gordon,
Thanks much for your efforts. As my followup indicates, the problem is sensitive to the particular CD in use.
Steve
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