On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:49:01 -0500,
Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:09 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I have submitted a feature request (allow with a patch to
>> implement the
>> feature) for livecd-creator to use udf instead of iso9660 so that
>> the
>> images can be larger than 4GiB. This would allow full use of DVDs
>> (the lowest maximum size for standard sized disks is 4.7GB) adding
>> about
>> 400MB of compressed space. This could also be used to create much
>> larger
>> spins for use on live usb's.
>
> I'm not against allowing udf, but we should probably use iso9660
> unless
> the size forces us to need udf just to avoid problems on as many
> systems
> as we can.
So something that checked the size of the mksquashfs and switched
automatically
between the two and emitting a message about this could be acceptable?
I don't really know python yet, so I may not be able to easily change
my previous patch to do that, but want to check before going down
that road.
Yep, exactly what I'm thinking. And it should be a fairly straight
forward matter of doing os.stat on the squashfs and then looking at
the size from that
Jeremy