Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/makefs

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> > I think the problem is that the final ISO9660 output including
> > embeded MD boot fs and partition maps still has to be iso9660 compliant.
> > There is no public space to store MD parameters for postprocessing
> > in output image, ...
> 
> Could the extra parameters be put into a file within the image?
> Then the postprocessing phase would have the required data.
> 
> Or even in a separate file !

It might be possible, but I doubt fdisk(8) or pdisk(8)
can handle iso images as is.
(Especailly Apple partition map has variable sizes)

If we have to add some tweaks to fdisk/pdisk to handle ISO9660 quirks,
I'm not sure if it's realy worth to remove MBR/APM stuff from makefs(8),
which really knows about ISO9660 internal structures.

IMO current makefs(8) implementation is acceptable compromise.
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Izumi Tsutsui