Re: Linux Kernel Patch to Fix 4GB Inode Problem

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

>From: Paul Serice <paul@serice.net>
>I've written a patch for the linux kernel.  Without the patch, it's
>iso9660 file system cannot reach inode information unless the
>information is located in the first 4GBs.

>This is needed by growisofs to allow it to start additional sessions
>in the area after the first 4GBs:

>     http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/#isofs4gb

>It is also needed by my pet project to write arbitrarily large streams
>of data to a multi-volume DVD set without the need for intermediate
>files:

>     http://www.serice.net/shunt/

>You can find the patch at the following URL:

>     http://www.serice.net/shunt/linux-2.6.6-isofs.patch


I hope that you know that this patch does not work correctly.
I hope it is not integrated into Linux.....



Jörg

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