FYI, forwarded with permission.

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:43:21 -0500
From: Daniel Watt <danwatt@gmail.com>
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: status of 'makefs -t cd9660'? (II)

Hubert,

We indeed have been working on this. All of us have just recently graduated, 
and had planned on working quite a bit over the last month on wrapping this 
project up, though life seems to have gotten busy for the team members. The 
project is nearly complete, with only a few issues that need to be resolved and 
tested.

The last test I performed on boot support showed that it was working fine for 
our limited test cases - single images booting several different boot images in 
emulated1.44mb floppies. Some more testing needs to be done on non-emulated 
images to make sure everything is working fine. I will try and get some tests 
run here in the next few days (I don't have the necessary boot images handy at 
the moment to run those tests) and get back to you.

The only other things that need wrapping up are the symlink support in Rock 
Ridge and a better name collision algorithm (since ISO names are either 8.3 or 
30 total characters long, collisions are possible. The current algorithm is 
very buggy and needs to be scrapped).

Our Wiki has some of the more technical information, and there is also 
anonymous access to our (somewhat cluttered at the moment) SVN server.

Daniel Watt
danwatt@gmail.com

Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> David Young pointed me at you as you're working on extending makefs(8) in 
> NetBSD to create ISO9660 images and to replace 'mkisofs'. Can you let me know 
> what the status of this is, esp. WRT boot support in emulation/non-emulation 
> mode?
> 
> See below for some more questions. Thanks!
> 
> 
>  - Hubert
> 
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:07:08 -0500
> From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
> To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
> Cc: dyoung@NetBSD.org, tech-install@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: status of 'makefs -t cd9660'?
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:52:57AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> as far as I understand, you're working on teaching our makefs(1) to create
>> ISO images. Can you tell us what the status of this is, esp. WRT booting
>> in emulation/non-emulation mode?
>> 
>> In other words: how far are we to replace mkisofs in the list of commands
>> given in http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/2005/06/28/0003.html?
>> 
>> (I know there's some SVN server, but maybe  you can give a summary of the
>> status).
> 
> 
> I have not been working on it, myself.  A group of UIUC students did
> the hard work this past school year.  All that I did was to set basic
> requirements, and provide some guidance and review.
> 
> Please direct inquiries to Daniel Watt, danwatt@gmail.com.  The project
> documentation is on a wiki,
> <http://cd9660.dyndns.org:88/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>.
> 
> Dave
>