Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Giulio Orsero wrote: Isn't the read-ahead thing solved with padding? ie mkisofs adds 150k by default since some time, and when burning I've always used 1MB of padding (ie cdrecord's padsize=512s), just to be safe. I could not reproduce the bug with anything else but CD TAO tracks. Never

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: I could not reproduce the bug with anything else but CD TAO tracks. Never with CD SAO, never with DVD. The reason for the TAO problem is known: Two non-data sectors at the end of the announced track size. A simple remedy is not to read the last two

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Schilling wrote: There are known writers that write up to 15 run out sectors in TAO mode. Then a cautious program should approach the last 15 sectors separately and be ready to tolerate failure. This would still not hamper read performance with the main part of the image. Have a

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 10 Jan 2010 10:15:10 NZDT +1300, Bill Davidsen wrote: There was another error having to do with reading data at the end of an image. Due to read ahead settings a read past end of data occurred and the (valid) partial data was not returned to the user program.

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-18 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 20:58, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: I have just turned down readahead in blockdev and my issues have gone away, but like you I don't see it much if a while. Isn't the read-ahead thing solved with padding? ie mkisofs adds 150k by default since some time, and

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-16 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sun 10 Jan 2010 10:15:10 NZDT +1300, Bill Davidsen wrote: There was another error having to do with reading data at the end of an image. Due to read ahead settings a read past end of data occurred and the (valid) partial data was not returned to the user program. Might that be what you

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-10 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:35:04 +0100, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Well, if you can read files 4 GB correctly, it may be that the problem has been fixed in a different way. is there any patch related to iso9660 in your kernel? I unpacked the RHEL5 kernel src.rpm.

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, If someone has a procedure to get the multi-extent Linux problem to manifest itself, please post it. I tried yours and i seem to have the original plague with i/o error and all. (Unclear why i cannot remember of the error back in 2008.) $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=filetest bs=100

Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Giulio
I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent files, as enabled by mkisofs --iso-level 3 option for files larger than 4GiB-2, on Linux. I'm using - mkisofs 2.01.01a69 - kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 (RHEL5) I had made some tests and it seemed to

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Giulio giul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent files, as enabled by mkisofs --iso-level 3 option for files larger than 4GiB-2, on Linux. I'm using - mkisofs 2.01.01a69 - kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 (RHEL5) When

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:07:25 +0100, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Giulio giul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent files, as enabled by mkisofs --iso-level 3 option for files larger than 4GiB-2, on

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Giulio Orsero giul...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:07:25 +0100, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Giulio giul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent files, as enabled by mkisofs --iso-level 3

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Schilling wrote: Giulio giul...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent files, as enabled by mkisofs --iso-level 3 option for files larger than 4GiB-2, on Linux. I'm using - mkisofs 2.01.01a69 - kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5

Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bill Davidsen wrote: There was another error having to do with reading data at the end of an image. Due to read ahead settings a read past end of data occurred and the (valid) partial data was not returned to the user program. Might that be what you are remembering? Hardly. It is related