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Ability to read HD UDF files?

Open dmarkey opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Hi there,

I was wondering if there would be any way for this library to allow me to read "HD" style UDF images that are made via:

mkudffs -m hd /foo

When I try to open foo above it complains that it's not a valid iso..

Thanks!

dmarkey avatar Apr 05 '22 09:04 dmarkey

Sorry for the long delay here.

In short, this may be possible, but it probably requires a substantial rewrite of the library. This library was really written around ISOs and mostly hangs off of the PVD, which is the main data structure in ISO9660. Unfortunately, UDF-only files don't have this, so a lot of the deep assumptions of this library would need to be revisited.

It's probably possible, but I doubt I'll have time to dig into it. If someone is interested in doing it, I'd be happy to review patches that pushes us in that direction.

clalancette avatar Jun 07 '22 01:06 clalancette