Re: UDF, ext2 and -o loop created images
Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > 1. Have the bugs Volker encountered with UDF been fixed now? Volker,
> > what versions of kernel and udftools were buggy for you?
>
> Whatever was current at the time... ;)
> Seriously, must have been SuSE 8.2, kernel 2.4.20, udftools 1.0.0b2.
>
> > 2. How does UDF fare as far as faithfully preserving all the ext2
> > attributes (uids, permissions, hard/soft links, pathname lengths,
> > etc.)?
>
> That's the problem. I went off iso9660 because it doesn't restore
> hardlinks (its other shortcomings are masked well by rockridge). With
This is because Linux *BSD did just copy bad code from Solaris....
We will fix this with with a new inode number generator that works with
99.999% probability for the next OpenSolaris release.
Jörg
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