Re: Improved cloop driver
"Tim Botzelmann" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:54:27 +0200 (CEST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.knoppix |
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Hi Michael, Michael Cohen sagte: > Also you will > need to know in advance how big the uncompressed image is so you can make > a > large enough empty index at the start - this may not be easy to know if > you > just do a mkisofs for example, and pipe the result to the compressor. mkisofs does tell the size of the image if started with the option "-print-size" added, so the time penalty wouldn't be that big if this was needed (just going through all the files and counting the blocks needed for the image). Greetings, Tim