Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 May 2004 19:06:02 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iso9660 inodes beyond 4GB |
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Paul Serice <paul@serice.net> wrote: > > The ISO 9660 standard allows meta-data to be stored at almost any > arbitrary byte on the file system. The current inode scheme uses the > byte offset as the inode value making it easy to find the underlying > block and block offset. > > This scheme is subject to obvious integer overflow problems that > prevents it from being able to reach meta-data beyond the 4GB > boundary. Looking back through the archives, this problem was > anticipated but discounted because mkisofs puts its meta-data near the > beginning of the file system.
Dumb question: why not simply use a 64-bit type in the inode?
> The patch is about 28K and can be downloaded from the following URL: > > http://www.serice.net/shunt/linux-2.6.6-isofs.patch
It goes 404. Please just send the patch directly to the mailing list. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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