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SubjectRe: CD Filesystem still broken!


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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