Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!news.datemas.de!not-for-mail From: (Nuno Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Why are mkisofs ISO's so large? Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:00:22 +0200 Organization: Datemas.de http://www.news.datemas.de Lines: 27 Message-ID: <8738vle0zd.fsf@invalid.invalid> References: <20130323150605@news.eternal-september.org> <87fvzlepqu.fsf@invalid.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: news.datemas.de iU+XU4NjI2pzcyWlFHGcd2Dle1NoQa4aQSZQw7Psz/j6t5ox3zQv9ZEh134IRGgkqrR/F3ULeUznmvmo9VVy/7K8kSttQ5Mh50HyCoXoba6wWfWN0XFZ2U/lNiwbmmHvlmX/GOTqeE40xGKADIkKKJcDg1jcczN3EOUrlPFZqPsDeAPAZzOCZA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@datemas.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LBjp1+jNVVfxq7mdQHfIM5WFYas= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:7612 On 2013-03-24, unruh wrote: > On 2013-03-23, (Nuno Silva) > wrote: > >> Hardware *is* in the mix, because Debian's tools seem to be unable to >> work with a set of optical burners. Joerg's mention of the media size >> would make sense. >> >> I am also used to see a lot of "drive returns wrong startsec, using ..." >> (sic?) when using cdrtools. That has always made me wonder if Debian's >> incarnation is using the wrong value. (A childish assumption, as there >> are so many other things that may go wrong.) >> >> Anyone knows what is the upstream's opinion on these issues? > > Well, the original upstream is Jorg and you know what his opinion is. > Wodim is cdrtools from 2006 plus > some changes. AFAIK it has received very little attention since then, so > upstream does not exist anymore. If wodim has no real upstream, I guess that would explain part of the problem... -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/