Reliable hard links with mkisofs/ISO-9660/RR
Max Khon
fjoe at samodelkin.net
Mon Oct 23 06:44:32 PDT 2006
Hi!
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:41:09PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > I just started to implement a long planned extension to mkisofs
> > > and Solaris hsfs that will allow hard links to work correctly.
> > >
> > > Is there any interest to also support this on FreeBSD?
> > >
> >
> > Sorry to be obtuse, but if you write it in mkisofs then won't it
> > automatically be supported
> > on FreeBSD when we use mkisofs?
> >
> > Is it possible that you are asking about our kernel isofs support?
>
> FreeBSD currently seems to bascally implement the same fake inode algorithm
> as SunOS does since ~ 1989.
>
> I did extend mkisofs during the past days and started to extend hsfs from
> Solaris. Once I am ready, I could present the results in case there is someone
> who is willing to work on the FreeBSD filesystem module, I could explain what
> needs to be done.
Please do.
/fjoe
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