Bug 485167

genisoimage is based on a completely outdated version of mkisofs
and genisoimage is unmaintained.

Mkisofs is well maintained and introduced support for correct hardlinks
in Summer 2006.

I recommand you to upgrade to recent original software from:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/

If you still do not see correct hard links, you would need to upgrade 
the linux kernel too. I did this with the Solaris ISO-9660/RR driver in
Summer 2006.

Turns out I was looking at it wrong.  The inodes are different, but apparently they point to the same blocks on the disk, thus the space is saved.  I'd suggest the man page gets changed to reflect this.

If you use the official mkisofs instead of genisoimage, the
inode numbers are identical for all hard linked file names.
This is needed if you ever like to copy the files correctly
from the CD/DVD.

Until such time that GPL licensed mkisofs doesn't require the CDDL licensed libscg, Fedora cannot make use of that software.

Do you know what you are talking about?

RedHat currently publishes a mkisofs fork that is
in conflict with GPL and Copyright and thus cannot
be legally distributed.

Do you believe that there would be a problem if Redhat 
did publish the legal original instead?

I do believe that you are misinformed.

I am the Copyrightholder and I know that you are missinformed.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Note that this bug is obviously independent from the the
Fedora release. The only way to fix the problem is to 
upgrade to recent _original_ software from 

http://cdrecord.berlios.de

Correct hard link support is in mkisofs since Autumn 2006,
so it it obvious that Redhat is ignoring new versions 
since a looooong time....

Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

As this bug is caused by the fact that RedHat does not ship
recent original software but rather a uses dead fork from a
really old version of cdrtools, RedHat users do not partcipate
on the development of the OSS project.

It is obvious that as long as Redhat does not upgrade to
recent original software, this bug will continue to exist.