[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michael Vishchers >
> > So I think that mkisofs works with large file sizes, but Linux (i.e.,
> > the iso9660 fs) has no support for them yet.
>
> Any file that has a size near or above 2 GB must
> be considered non-portable to common operating systems.
> Even if you manage to read it on one computer it might
> fail on others. This is not necessarily restricted to
> ISO file systems but may even apply to all file systems
> on a particular computer.
Basically you are right.
To make it unabiguous:
Teings like his should be dealt similar to the short filename issues.
The Large File summit has been in 1995 and any recent OS should support
files > 2 GB - 2 bytes.
Unfortunately, the ISO-9660 specs are hard to read and hard to understand.
About 2 months ago, we did have a meeting with the Sun Filesystem crew and
finally agreed on how the ISO-9660 spec should be interpreted for files > 2 GB.
Currently neither Linux nor Solaris do support multi extent files (files > 4 GB)
with ISO-9660. I cannot speak for Linux at all as it is hard to get changes into
the Linux kernel (problem that might be obsoleted with OpenSolaris) I also
cannot speak for Solaris 10 first customer shipping release,
but expect full large file support for ISO-9660 either on Solaris 10 U1
or on one of the early OpenSolaris distributions.
J�rg
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