Hadris ISO

A comprehensive Rust implementation of the ISO 9660 filesystem with support for Joliet, Rock Ridge (RRIP), El-Torito booting, and no-std environments.

Features

• Read & Write Support - Full-featured ISO creation and extraction
• No-std Compatible - Use in bootloaders and custom kernels
• El-Torito Boot - Create bootable CD/DVD images for BIOS systems
• Joliet Extension - UTF-16 Unicode filenames (up to 64 characters)
• Rock Ridge Extension - POSIX filesystem semantics (long names, permissions, symlinks)
• ISO 9660:1999 - Long filenames up to 207 characters

Quick Start

Reading an ISO

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::BufReader;
use hadris_iso::read::IsoImage;

let file = File::open("image.iso")?;
let reader = BufReader::new(file);
let image = IsoImage::open(reader)?;

// Iterate through root directory
let root = image.root_dir();
for entry in root.iter(&image).entries() {
    let entry = entry?;
    println!("File: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(entry.name()));
}

Creating a Bootable ISO

use std::io::Cursor;
use std::sync::Arc;
use hadris_iso::boot::options::{BootEntryOptions, BootOptions};
use hadris_iso::boot::EmulationType;
use hadris_iso::read::PathSeparator;
use hadris_iso::write::options::{BaseIsoLevel, CreationFeatures, FormatOptions};
use hadris_iso::write::{File as IsoFile, InputFiles, IsoImageWriter};

// Prepare files
let files = InputFiles {
    path_separator: PathSeparator::ForwardSlash,
    files: vec![
        IsoFile::File {
            name: Arc::new("boot.bin".to_string()),
            contents: boot_image_bytes,
        },
    ],
};

// Configure boot options
let boot_options = BootOptions {
    write_boot_catalog: true,
    default: BootEntryOptions {
        boot_image_path: "boot.bin".to_string(),
        load_size: Some(std::num::NonZeroU16::new(4).unwrap()),
        boot_info_table: false,
        grub2_boot_info: false,
        emulation: EmulationType::NoEmulation,
    },
    entries: vec![],
};

// Create ISO
let format_options = FormatOptions {
    volume_name: "BOOTABLE".to_string(),
    sector_size: 2048,
    path_seperator: PathSeparator::ForwardSlash,
    features: CreationFeatures {
        filenames: BaseIsoLevel::Level1 {
            supports_lowercase: false,
            supports_rrip: false,
        },
        long_filenames: false,
        joliet: None,
        rock_ridge: None,
        el_torito: Some(boot_options),
    },
};

let mut buffer = Cursor::new(vec![0u8; 1024 * 1024]);
IsoImageWriter::format_new(&mut buffer, files, format_options)?;

Feature Flags

For Bootloaders (minimal footprint)

[dependencies]
hadris-iso = { version = "0.2", default-features = false, features = ["read"] }

For Kernels with Heap (no-std + alloc)

[dependencies]
hadris-iso = { version = "0.2", default-features = false, features = ["read", "alloc"] }

For Desktop Applications (full features)

[dependencies]
hadris-iso = { version = "0.2" }  # Uses default features

Extension Support

Comparison with Other Tools

Examples

Run the examples with:

# Read an ISO and display its contents
cargo run --example read_iso -- path/to/image.iso

# Extract files from an ISO
cargo run --example extract_files -- path/to/image.iso ./output

# Create a bootable ISO
cargo run --example create_bootable_iso

Compatibility

ISOs created with this crate are compatible with:

• Linux (mount, isoinfo, xorriso)
• Windows (built-in ISO support)
• macOS (built-in ISO support)
• QEMU/VirtualBox (bootable ISOs)

Specification References

• ECMA-119 (ISO 9660)
• Joliet Specification (Microsoft)
• IEEE P1282 (Rock Ridge / RRIP)
• El-Torito Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.