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Re: Bits from the CD team: plans for debian-cd v3.0



On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:55:38AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <raphael@ouaza.com> writes:
> 
> > Le mardi 12 juillet 2005 à 19:08 +0200, Robert Lemmen a écrit :
> >> >     [...] once the tree gets to within a small
> >> >     margin of the target, we can start running mkisofs -print-size to
> >> >     check exactly how large the resulting image would be. It will even
> >> 
> >> is this really necessary? can't we somehow determine how much will fit
> >> on the cd without doing this? 
> 
> mkisofs -print-size just scans the directory and then outputs the
> size. It runs realy quick with the fs tree cached.

ah cool, that's what i meant. really running mkisofs looks excessive,
especially if you have to do it often to optimize the cd layout

cu  robert

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