From: Curious Person <antispam@...>
Date: 2003-01-29T04:22:54+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest.size? vs du -b

Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> wrote in
news:3E36C62D.9096E98@stud.ntnu.no: 

> So take in the filesize, as FileTest.size reports, round upwards to
> nearest block size as defined by the target filesystem (IOS9660?) and
> use that number to fill it to bursting point. 
> 
>  http://osdev.berlios.de/osd-fs.html#iso

Good idea regarding the blocks.  Thank you for that very helpful link.

> 
> Uhm, would this be a bad time to mention that this sounds like the
> knapsack problem? :-P


Naturally, it's going to be a (somewhat modified) knapsack, but first I 
need to get the sizes of the directory trees so it knows how big everything 
is [and in the best size for the target device (CD, DiskOnKey, Zip, 
whatever].

Thanks to everybody for their very kind help!
-C