Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: MAX iso9660 size? | Date | 9 Oct 2000 22:13:15 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010091516190.17273-100000@master.linux-ide.org> By author: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Is there a limit? > I keep getting barfs on an iso9960 image 4,592,353,280 of this size. > Basically I am burning DVD's at 4.7GB tests before patching the kernel > before 2.4 for expanded DVD support. >
I belive kernels had a problem with ISO 9660 > 2^31 or 2^32 bytes until recently. Also, mkisofs might not be able to handle it.
Yes, UDF is the way to go, but these large filesystems do exist. Yggdrasil recently released a two-layer DVD as an ISO 9660 filesystem; the announcement had the kernel requirements in question.
-hpa
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