From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 08:18:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343B6106566B for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:18:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Joerg.Schilling9ab33xy531fokus.fraunhofer.de@bounce.antispameurope.com) Received: from relay01-haj2.antispameurope.com (relay01-haj2.antispameurope.com [83.246.65.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94D58FC17 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by relay01-haj2.antispameurope.com (ASE-Secure-MTA, from userid 1000) id F1CF5940C1; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de [195.37.77.164]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay01-haj2.antispameurope.com (ASE-Secure-MTA) with ESMTP id 60D3E94088; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr.fokus.fraunhofer.de [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n9F8I2Il025123; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:02 +0200 (MEST) Received: from rigel ([10.147.65.195]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:02 +0200 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:16:32 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: noc@hdk5.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, wblock@wonkity.com Message-ID: <4ad6da60.qvbHHxwf0N70A4ac%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Oct 2009 08:18:02.0612 (UTC) FILETIME=[03A23B40:01CA4D70] Cc: Subject: Re: mkisofs error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:18:08 -0000 Be _very_ careful, genisoimage is full of bugs and creates defective filesystems. Do not use it, genisoimage is unmaintained and does not even support files > 4 GB! Other well known bugs in genisoimage create defective directory entries for "." and "..". This is because genisoimage is based on a 5 year old version of mkisofs with additional bugs added that never have been in the original software. Mkisofs has no known bugs and is well maintained. I see no reason why mkisofs should be the cause for your problem... Well you did not describe the problem in a way that could allow to analyse the background. Possible reasons for your problem could be read errors on the medium, check using: readcd f=/dev/null whether the medium is fully readable. Another possible reason could be a problem in the filesystem driver of the kernel. If a file gives a read error, there should be a kernel message related to the problem. If you are able to extract the file using "isoinfo" using the ISO-9660 name of the file (be careful not to use the defective "isoinfo" that comes with "cdrkit"), the problem is definitely not in mkisofs. BTW: do you use a recent or an outdated mkisofs? The latest version of mkisofs is 2.01.01a66 and FreeBSD by default unfortunately distributes extremely outdated versions..... Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily