The arranging of the files should not make the Belenix image non-ISO compliant. As far as I know, there are no changes to the ISO9660 directory. We just order the data written to the image. Also, as far as metalink is concerned, it should not make a difference whether it is a valid ISO or not. It would just be concerned with getting a bunch of bits down intact, I guess.
The metalink XML for belenix is quite interesting. Apart from the regular checksums, the image is divided into 86 chunks with individual checksums. A compliant FTP client should be able to repair the ISO image by just re-downloading the corrupt bits - much like bittorrent. Anthony, Is there a way to configure the number of chunk the ISO is divided into? Venky. On 7/15/07, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm.. > > I think that BeleniX iso is non-ISO compliant, due to the files on it > being arranged. That si alright. As far as checking the consistency of > the CD, md5 digest should be the correct way to check. If you download > the file by torrent, then the built in hash checking is good ehough to > download only the incorrect pieces. > > Anil > > On 7/15/07, Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is a .metalink for 0.6.1 at > > http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#belenix > > > > The metalink contains repair info for the ISO, which allows errors to > > be automatically repaired during download, instead of needing to > > re-download the whole ISO. aria2 uses low amounts of system resources > > for CLI downloading and also supports torrents. > > > > http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ > > http://wiki.mozilla.org/Metalink > > http://sarovar.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=773&group_id=360&atid=1497 > > -- > > (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] > > )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads > > _______________________________________________ > > belenix-discuss mailing list > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
