Re: [OpenBIOS] /packages/disk-label, /packages/sun-parts and /packages/misc-files

[Laurent Vivier]

> Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > This one compiles and works (on ppc). I have tested with some ISOs
> > (Yaboot based, *BSD, haiku, morphos) and some disk images (Quik based
> > debians).
> >
> > Please, test it with your disks. Don't forget:
> >
> > <option name="CONFIG_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="true"/>
> > <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="false"/>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Laurent
>
> Thanks for this Laurent.
>
> Since most of my testing is currently on SPARC64, I had to fiddle a 
> little bit with these options enabled as CONFIG_ISO9660 clashes with the 
> default CONFIG_GRUBFS and CONFIG_FSYS_ISO9660 options.
>
> Once I managed to build it, I had more of a play and found the in-built 
> ISO9660 module to be sadly lacking. In particular, it is case-sensitive 
> with respect to filenames, doesn't handle trailing periods correctly and 
> has no knowledge of RockRidge extensions compared to the grubfs version 
> which I fixed in r777.
>
> Given that the grubfs code also supports a wider variety of filesystems, 
> I'm quite tempted to rip out ALL the standard OpenBIOS fs drivers and 
> make use of the grubfs ones instead. Would anyone have any major 
> objections to this?

Yes, I have: I added them last year to be able to manage the "dir" command...

Regards,
Laurent