Re: small fixes to isofs

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Thu, 6 May 1999 22:50:05 +0200


On Wed, Apr 28 1999, Gordon Chaffee wrote:
> > I've found a problem in the isofs. I do have a data CD which seems to
> > mount well but I only see there 2 files. The same CD works just fine
> > in Windoze 95/98 and shows all files.
>
> Don't know, but this could be related to another problem report I got.
> For some reason, someone removed code that existed in 2.0.x that dealt
> with illegally formatted CDs. While illegally formatted, there are
> plenty of old CDs that have this problem. Also, these CDs are read
> without problems by Macs and Win95/NT. The following patch restores
> the behavior from 2.0.x. It has not been tested enough, but you could
> try and see if it fixes your problem.

[patch snipped]

Although this fixes the NASA CD's, it breaks on another CD I have
lying around (which worked fine before). Mounts fine, but doing
a listing gives me this in the logs :

_isofs_bmap: block<0

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*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer

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