[Fedora-livecd-list] Allowing livecd images large than 4GiB

[Jeremy Katz]

On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:49:01 -0500,
>  Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:09 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> I have submitted a feature request (allow with a patch to  
>>> implement the
>>> feature) for livecd-creator to use udf instead of iso9660 so that  
>>> the
>>> images can be larger than 4GiB. This would allow full use of DVDs
>>> (the lowest maximum size for standard sized disks is 4.7GB) adding  
>>> about
>>> 400MB of compressed space. This could also be used to create much  
>>> larger
>>> spins for use on live usb's.
>>
>> I'm not against allowing udf, but we should probably use iso9660  
>> unless
>> the size forces us to need udf just to avoid problems on as many  
>> systems
>> as we can.
>
> So something that checked the size of the mksquashfs and switched  
> automatically
> between the two and emitting a message about this could be acceptable?
> I don't really know python yet, so I may not be able to easily change
> my previous patch to do that, but want to check before going down  
> that road.

Yep, exactly what I'm thinking. And it should be a fairly straight  
forward matter of doing os.stat on the squashfs and then looking at  
the size from that

Jeremy