Re: Joliet extensions and files with no filename extension

[Joerg Schilling <Joerg Schilling fokus fraunhofer de>]

Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup gmx net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > [genisoimage from cdrkit] causes bad ISO images because of unfixed bugs
> > as a result of the fact that genisoimage is unmaintained since 12 years.
>
> Releasing no changes since years does not mean that genisoimage would
> necessarily spoil a simple ISO with Joliet. The bugs known to me rather
> lead to crash or refusal to produce output.

You are mistaken.

mkisofs did have lots of bugs and Debian added plenty of Debian specific bugs.

The fact that Debian did not change things just verified that Debian is not 
interested in delivering what users need.


genisoimage does not add Joliet by default, but it creates ISO images with 
buggy content in general.

genisoimage also does not really support the UDF filesystem as there is no 
support for the usual file meta data and files beyond plain files and 
directories.

BTW: this lib you are talking about does not support UDF at all even though it 
is needed for DVDs and Blue Rays.

So if you like to get what you need, use mkisofs - Major version 3 or better.


Jörg

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