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>>mkisofs definitey does not skip those files silently!
>>
>>It prints: "File %s is too large - ignoring\n"
>>
>>It is not possible to put files > 2 GB into a ISO-9660 fs.
>Presumably this is just a limit of the mkisofs program.
>ISO 9660 : 1988 (E) 9.1.4 says a 32 bit number is used to
>specify the Data Length in a Directory Record, but that is
>just the number of bytes in that particular File Section.
>ISO 9660 : 1988 (E) 9.3.e specifies no limit for the number
>of File Sections in an individual File. Directory Entries
>for all of the File Sections must be in the same Directory.
>ISO 9660 : 1988 (E) 6.8.1 says that a Directory shall consist
>of only one File Section. Given that limit of 4GB on the size
>of any File Section (and thus a Directory) assuming a Directory
>Record size of 64 bytes (to make the math easy), it seems to me
>a Directory could contain 62,500,000 of those records for
>successive File Sections. Multiply the 62 million Directory
>Records in a single Directory by the 4 billion bytes in any
>File Section and you have a limit considerably larger than
>2 GB.
>You need a bigger disc than CDROM, and there may be operating
>systems that cannot handle such sizes, but I see no problem
>in the ISO 9660 format up to about 2**18 bytes in a file.
Looks like you like to make your own standard...
J�rg
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