Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:38 am
Okay, the trick is that fuseiso gives crazy file sizes so if I am only able to mount with fuseiso then I can't use the reported sizes to see if a file is too large. I don't want to use the overall size of the iso file because that could easily get large with remasters, persistence, and other stuff without one file being 4Gig. So I am relying on the quirk (always a mistake) that fuseiso reports oversized files more than once. Someone might want to check that this works for files exactly one 4 Gig and one byte more and one byte less.
@rs55, Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux! You've had one heck of an introduction and I'm a little surprised (but delighted) that you stuck it out.
In the new code, in addition to trying 'mount" first before "fuseiso", if fuseiso was used then I look for duplicate file names. If I find any then I error out saying there are files too large for fuseiso to handle. This is probably not a great message but oh well for now.
In case you want to test this I attached rs55-test-LUM-05.tgz. It is the old game where you:
You should get:
Then to test it on one of your large iso files, use the --force=fuse option (I'll bet you never imagined you would be using that). This will cause it to only try fuseiso and when it does it should error out. So this test is quick and painless compared to the mountain of previous testing you were doing. It seemed to work here.
I'm not planning to push these changes tonight because I am very tired and I may not be thinking clearly. If it still seems like a good idea in the morning then I will push the changes tomorrow. It is unfortunate that this is happening just hours after anticapitalista released eight new iso files. Really bad timing seems to be this year's theme. We do the best we can. I suspect that even now fehlix is trying to figure out how to get it to fuseiso mounting work anyway. That would be really something.
I'm really grateful to you rs55 for hanging in and helping us track down these problems even when I was doubting you. It is very strange that one person ran into both fuseiso issues and also ran into the lz4 issue for good measure. How likely was that? Thank you once again.
@rs55, Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux! You've had one heck of an introduction and I'm a little surprised (but delighted) that you stuck it out.
In the new code, in addition to trying 'mount" first before "fuseiso", if fuseiso was used then I look for duplicate file names. If I find any then I error out saying there are files too large for fuseiso to handle. This is probably not a great message but oh well for now.
In case you want to test this I attached rs55-test-LUM-05.tgz. It is the old game where you:
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tar xzf rs55-test-LUM-05.tgz.
cd rs55-test-LUM-05/LUM
./live-usb-maker --version
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live-usb-maker version 2.32.00 (Thu Mar 28 21:55:53 MDT 2019)
cli-shell-utils version 2.32.00 (Thu Mar 28 21:57:51 MDT 2019)
I'm not planning to push these changes tonight because I am very tired and I may not be thinking clearly. If it still seems like a good idea in the morning then I will push the changes tomorrow. It is unfortunate that this is happening just hours after anticapitalista released eight new iso files. Really bad timing seems to be this year's theme. We do the best we can. I suspect that even now fehlix is trying to figure out how to get it to fuseiso mounting work anyway. That would be really something.
I'm really grateful to you rs55 for hanging in and helping us track down these problems even when I was doubting you. It is very strange that one person ran into both fuseiso issues and also ran into the lz4 issue for good measure. How likely was that? Thank you once again.

Han Solo wrote:
Never tell me the odds!