Re: [Bug-xorriso] bug with handling symbolic links?

[Joerg Meyer]

Hi Thomas

> Looks rather like a bug. Probably some unnoticed regression.
> I'll have to investigate.
Sorry to discover so much "unexpected behaviour"...
But the good news is that the original issue appears to be remedied.
(Will try the xattr tests tomorrow.)

> With -dev, the old file data stay were they are and cannot
> get reduplicated. The medium must be appendable (image files
> always are) and offer enough writable capacity for a new
> directory tree.
So this way the symlinks-SUSP-entries could (hypothetically) be fixed by 
re-adding the files
(i.e. extracting into hard disk file system before) into a new session (thus 
introducing somewhat more overhead)?

Best wishes,
Jörg.


On 07 Mar 2015, at 19:12, Thomas Schmitt <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Hmm, the output image is too large by an amount that corresponds nicely to
>> the deduplicated data. [...]
> 
> Indeed. I can reproduce this on small scale.
> 
>> Is there another flag that is supposed to enforce this?
> 
> Looks rather like a bug. Probably some unnoticed regression.
> I'll have to investigate.
> 
> The -indev -outdev method of "modifying" is less tested than
> the -dev method of "growing".
> With -dev, the old file data stay were they are and cannot
> get reduplicated. The medium must be appendable (image files
> always are) and offer enough writable capacity for a new
> directory tree.
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
>