Document image growing/modify problems.
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- libburn 0.4.2 headers must be installed at compile time. It is not required
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- libburn 0.4.2 headers must be installed at compile time. It is not required
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at runtime.
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at runtime.
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Know bugs:
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Multisession and image growing can lead to undesired results in several cases:
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a) Images with unsupported features, such as:
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- UDF.
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- HSF/HFS+ or other Mac extensions.
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- El-Torito with multiple entries.
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- ECMA-119 with extended attributes, multiple extends per file.
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- Non El-Torito boot info.
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- zisofs compressed images.
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- ...
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In all these cases, the resulting new image (or new session) could lack some
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features of the original image.
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In some cases libisofs will issue warning messages, or even refuse to grow
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or modify the image. Others remain undetected. Images created with libisofs
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do not have this problems.
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b) Bootable El-Torito images may have several problems, that result in a new
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image that is not bootable, or that boots from an outdated session. In many
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cases it is recommended to add boot info again in the new session.
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- isolinux images won't be bootable after a modify. This is because
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isolinux images need to have hardcoded the root dir lba. libisofs cannot
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know whether an image is an isolinux image or not, so the user is
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responsible to tell libisofs that it must patch the image, with the
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el_torito_patch_isolinux_image() function. This problem could also exists
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on other boot images.
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- Most boot images are highly dependent of the image contents, so if the
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user moves or removes some files on image it is possible they won't boot
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anymore.
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- There is no safer way to modify hidden boot images, as the size of the
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boot image can't be figured out.
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c) Generated images could have different ECMA-119 low level names, due to
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different way to mangle names, to new files added that force old files to
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be renamed, to different relaxed contraints... This only affect the
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ISO-9660 info, not the RR names, so it shouldn't be a problem in most
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cases. If your app. relies on low level ISO-9660 names, you will need to
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ensure all node names are valid ISO names (maybe together with some
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relaxed contraints), otherwise libisofs might arbitrarily change the names.
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