Re: DVDs created with too large files
>From: Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz>
>> But can a file span multiple extents? The way I read the comment
>> Gary quoted, it's legal to have an image that is over 2GB in size,
>> as long as each file inside that image is no larger than 2GB.
>Careful - the comment was about mkisofs, although it was in the kernel
>source. It definitely says file*systems* >2GB are legal, otherwise it
>says mkisofs can't handle single *files* >2GB - that doesn't
>necessarily mean they're illegal. The comment may also be old and no
>longer true for current versions of standards.
It is hard to implement things in mkisofs that cannot be tested.
Jörg
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