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Re: Why are the 2017 DVD ISOs so small ?



Thomas Schmitt, on lun. 19 juin 2017 20:43:48 +0200, wrote:
> the DVD images 1 to 3 in
>   http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/
> are listed with sizes 1.6G, 1.7G, and 1.7G respectively. At least DVD-1
> really has only 1,680,308,224 bytes (and is not truncated or rolled over).
> Is the small size intentional ?

Yes, our isofs still uses a mere memory mapping of the whole image, so
it doesn't support big sizes.

Samuel


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