Announcing xorriso-0.4.6

2009-12-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, be invited to try the new release 0.4.6 of my program xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. It creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. Optionally it supports hard links, ACLs, xattr, and MD5 checksums. xorriso can load

Re: CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/INVALID FIELD IN CDB: not harmless?

2009-12-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The reason to use O_DIRECT is to avoid impact on the performance of other processes in the system, rather than to improve speed. The odd point is that mmap() versus calloc() influences SG_IO write speed. The read performance from disk was sufficient in all the tests. (fifo well filled,

Re: CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/INVALID FIELD IN CDB: not harmless?

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, me: Is there any way how after umounting of the filesystem the content is still not up to date for subsequent reading of the file ? The image file got opened by growisofs via open64(O_DIRECT|O_RDONLY). Jens Jorgensen: Well there's a scary thought. I