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From: Sylvain <asm8@×××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ziso rather than cloop
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 12:47:00
Message-Id: 20030406144658.4209d88d.asm8@wanadoo.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ziso rather than cloop by Daniel Robbins
1 I already tryed to make bootable cd with ziso instead of cloop method,
2 and i had to uncompress some files, because of IO error on them.
3 i didn't understood why...
4 The problem doesn't come frfom poor quality cd, since i have it on loop mounted ziso
5 images.
6
7 Le Sat, 5 Apr 2003 22:00:50 -0700
8 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> a écrit:
9
10 > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 02:48:27PM -0500, Justin Whitney wrote:
11 > > It seems, though, that your use of cloop is less widely supported than
12 > > other solutions - it would perhaps be more robust to use the ziso
13 > > transparent iso decompression extension which is present in 2.4 kernels,
14 > > even (at least it is in my 21-pre6 kernel), for example. So I'm
15 > > wondering why the choice of cloop over zisofs?
16 >
17 > zisofs actually has a lot of strange problems, enough to make it fairly
18 > unusable for production use. The reason why you are having problems is
19 > that the cloop.o module is not a kernel option, and is built for our
20 > initrd to match the kernel that is used to boot gentoo. So swapping
21 > in a new kernel could cause things to fail.
22 >
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24 > Daniel Robbins
25 > Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux
26 > http://www.gentoo.org
27 >
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