[EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted and then wrote: >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>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...
Sorry, I don't understand that comment. If my understanding of ISO 9660 is incorrect, I would like to know where I have made an error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
