From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 18 01:35:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA05442 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:35:14 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA05327 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:32:42 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA14356; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:32:30 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA08438; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:32:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA09280; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:08:01 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510180808.JAA09280@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Pending crisis in packages/All/... To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:07:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <13671.813938373@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 17, 95 06:59:33 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 877 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > mksiofs can't hack it. > > mkisofs breaks badly on a directory containing as many symlinks as the > packages/All directory does, and last time I was not able to get > packages/All on the CDROM because of it. To not be able to do How can i reproduce it? I don't have the IP link to suck all that stuff right now. I've quickly created a directory structure containing 400 zero length files scattered throughout 10 directories, accompanied by symlinks into one "central" directory. mkisofs handled that image fine. Do i have to take longer file names? Non-zero files? I think fixing mkisofs is the most useful solution. All your options are grrr..., so why not use that one? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)