[Centos] ISO's and padding once again

[maze at cela.pl (Maciej Żenczykowski)]

> But this is a problem with cdrecord and not with iso generation.  How
> does this solution impact people who do not use cdrecord to make ISOs.
> There are many people who burn the ISOs with other programs (growfs,
> nero, roxio ezcd, and a dozen other windows or mac ISO recording
> programs.)

not really, this is a problem with the HW, it can potentially affect many
burning programs (cdrecord included, basically all those which don't pad
by default), and most (all?) linux burning programs do make use of
cdrecord, so... it is a big problem.  Furthermore this solution doesn't 
break it for anyone (except for having to download 300KB more worth of 
zeroes... but 300KB on a 700MB file is pretty much nothing anyway 
(0.042%)...)

> I'm not sure that we should put the extra items on the end of the file
> if it will adversely impact the other burning programs.
> 
> Any comments...

It won't affect anything adversly, it will just make stuff work better for 
all those for whom it used to not work...

> > Option (b) is nice and should probably be done anyway (making -pad 
> > cdrecord option the default) but will take ages to spread and in the 
> > meantime cd burning problems will continue to plague us.
> 
> This option only impacts the user that uses cdrecord and doesn't impact
> other burning software.

True, but cdrecord encompasses all of Linux :)

Cheers,
MaZe.