Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Writeable isofs? | Date | 4 Mar 1998 14:50:11 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980304144730.56117@elt1s04> By author: Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi, > > When I used mkisofs the last time, I was wondering whether it > might be possible (by any chance) to make the isofs read/write. > That would allow us to format a disk partition of the right > size as isofs and just create the image there. One could > always test everything on it. > > Since it (to my knowledge) hasn't been done yet, it looks > as if it was just not doable. So please tell me if it is so. >
Pretty much. The ISO 9660 filesystem is optimized for read-only access; doing incremental writes to it would be a very expensive proposition, and one that simply wouldn't work too well. Note you can still test the image created with mkisofs/mkhybrid before writing it to disk.
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