Re: DVDs created with too large files
> 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.
> But then the whole comment seems odd. It looks to me like the
> WARNING was added later, and written by Jörg.
Yes
> That seems to me like
> the only logical way to explain why the comment says it's legal,
> but the code claims it's illegal to have files that are more than
> 2GB in size.
You're mixing up file with filesystem here?
> so apparently at least someone looked at ISO Level 3 support. I'd
> say send a message to linux-kernel and see what they say about
> it...
Yes, together with a raft of other iso9660 issues :(
Perhaps mkisofs is now able to handle files >2GB, the lack of a
suitable error when creating the filesystem does suggest so. However,
for Linux that's a moot point as Linux doesn't handle >2GB, but mkisofs
isn't only used on Linux. Thanks Gary for the warning about that.
It should be possible to retrieve the file with isoinfo -x, which
doesn't use any filesystem code.
Volker
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