>From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> : But DVD-* media is cheaper and I see no advantage in using DVD+ media.
>>
>> Other advantages are the ability to completely fill the disks (> 4 GB
>> iso files are a problem on 32 bit systems) and not needing free space
>> for the disk images.
>"When you don't know what you are talking about. Shut up". :-)
See above ;-)......
>You can't make a single file bigger than 2 GB in an ISO-Filesystem,
>corect. But that is a limitation in of the ISO-Filesystem itself.
The OP did not talk about single files _inside_ an ISO FS but about ISO-FILES
which usually is a file holding an ISO FS as content.
>When you have a problem creating the 4.5GB Image-File then your system
>isn't up to date. Update the system or use the split-option of mkisofs.
>I burn DVD-Rs for more than a year now and from day one on i had never
>problems with file-sizes (*1) (*2)
This is true.
>*1: Except that i had to patch the ISO-driver in Linux (kernel 2.4.9) to
>recognize files bigger than 1 GB. But that patch made into "normal"
>Linux a few revisions later.
A known old bug in the linux kernel
>*2: I don't count the 2GB Limitation of ISO-fs as a problem. As it is
>conceptual there is nothing you can do about it.
Future versions of mkisofs will allow you to use > 2 GB files in UDF
filesystems.
Jörg
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