Joliet and release ISOs?

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 18 Jul 2009, at 05:56, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
> > [...]tar now supports (and actually prefers) Joliet extensions when  
> > it sees them.
> 
> 
> Hangonaminute. Isn't this down in the filesystem ie below tar's radar ?

Nowadays (i.e. since the switchover to a libarchive-based tar) tar can
handle many different archive formats.  This includes reading ISO-images
directly.  So this is not below tar's radar when operating directly on an
ISO-image.  If said image had been mounted as a filesystem and tar was then
used to collect files from that filesystem, it should have been unnoticed by
tar, but that is not the case discussed.


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