Re: Duplicate inodes in 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 06/23/05

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To: Gregg Cooper <bsdcrank@squbes.com>

    Gregg Cooper wrote:
    > While trying to make a simple customization to the latest distribution
    > cd (add console="comconsole" to boot/loader.conf), the following four
    > sets of cross-linked files were found (pruned output from "ls -ilR
    > /cdrom"; isoinfo(8) from sysutils/cdrtools produces similar):
    >
    > 15005 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 0 May 8 03:05 dumpdates
    > 15005 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 142 May 8 03:05 fbtab
    > 83266 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 0 May 8 03:01 locale
    > 83266 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 31 May 8 03:01 mm.tmac
    > 83269 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 0 May 8 03:01 se_locale
    > 83269 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 97 May 8 03:01 se_ms.cov
    > 99056 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 0 May 8 03:05 utmp
    > 99056 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 18425 May 8 03:04 Makefile.dist
    >
    > After tar'ing the cd contents over to disk, and "diff -r" uncovering the
    > discrepancies in the copy (the second file of each set was now 0 bytes),
    > had to manually delete and re-copy the four truncated files before
    > making the desired change, and mkisofs(8) and burncd(8).
    >
    > Maybe this is a one-off, or perhaps a simple change could be made to the
    > release cd mastering process to avoid this in the future.
    >
    > Gregg

    We don't do anything special in the mastering process: The exact
    command that is used by the release Makefile:

    bootable="-b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot"
    mkisofs $bootable -r -J -V $LABEL -publisher "$publisher" -o $NAME $*

    Maybe it's a bug in mkisofs?

    Scott
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