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Re: [Bug-xorriso] Mountable ISO and GRUB2


From: Carlo Caione
Subject: Re: [Bug-xorriso] Mountable ISO and GRUB2
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:20:13 +0100

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Thomas Schmitt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A bit off topic: What is the reason for using -iso-level 4 ?
>
> This probably wastes space by producing an additional ISO 9660:1999
> directory tree, which hardly anybody will read.
>
> If you use -iso-level 3 then you get away with large files and the ISO 9660
> file names may be up to 32 characters long. (Linux is supposed to use the
> Rock Ridge names, anyway, which are case sensitive and up to 255 characters
> long.)

Yeah, we needed large files support and we exaggerated a bit with the
iso-levels :D
-iso-level 3 is what we really need. Thank you for pointing this out.

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