Re: [Bug-xorriso] bug with handling symbolic links?

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> Ah OK, I thought the Joliet tree would also automatically be recreated 
> by "-changes_pending yes" if found to be present in the previous session.

No. -changes_pending "yes" just compensates that you did not
make any change of the image content. Without the explicit
confirmation of -changes_pending, xorriso would refuse to
start ISO production.


> So it's now some ~4MB larger than the original estimate

Shall i begin to riddle where this comes from ... ?

Maybe the MD5 checksum array which gets stored at the
end of the session ?
16 bytes per data file. 4 MB would mean about 260,000 MD5s.
A quick glimpse with
    -find / -exec get_any_xattr --
shows that hardlink siblings share the isofs.cx index to MD5.
So if your ISO contains about 260000 different deduplicated
file contents, then the 4 MB would be explainable.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas