Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Em Ter, 2006-12-05 Ã s 14:45 +0100, Joerg Schilling escreveu:
> > Before you sare starting to guess about possible reasons, I recommend to
> > upgrade to a recent mkisofs
> >
> > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
> >
> > and test again ;-)
>
> Hi Joerg,
>
> Thank you for your input. But I believe it won't be necessary to upgrade
> to a newer mkisofs and I'm not sure it would produce any different
> output.
>
> The current mkisofs in Debian is capable of creating ISO images with
> deeper trees. The problem here is our selection of options we pass to
> mkisofs when creating the ISO image. If we used "-iso-level 4" or "-D"
> there would not be this problem, but we would be risking compatibility
> with older ISO9660 implementations (MS-DOS?).
>
> Applying the patch in the attachment is all that's needed to (always)
> use "-iso-level 4". I'll work on a better patch that will adapt the
> options used according to the depth of the tree, so that we have an
> image as backward compatible as possible, without limiting the the kind
> of data the user adds to the disc.
This is a bad idea as not all OS properly deal with ISO-9660:1999 (not only
DOS). Using -D should be an exception.
Please note that future k3b versions will not use "-D" anymore if they detect a
recent mkisofs.
Jörg
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