Re: File sizes > 2 GB on isofs?

From: Jeff Mahoney
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 13:33:56 EST


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Andi Kleen wrote:
| Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
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|>With DVDs becoming widely popular for personal data storage, this 2 GB
|>limit will probably become more and more of an issue.
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| That is what UDF was for created, wasn't it?

That may well be true, but it's not a reason to not support the full
file size of iso9660 filesystems.

If my interpretation of the spec is correct, and I believe that it is,
then the max file size of an iso9660 filesystem is 4 GB. If it's not the
case, then mkisofs should be changed to not support such filesystems.
(Ignoring the recent fun with Joerg on LKML)

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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