At 1:50 PM +0100 11/3/03, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> But can a file span multiple extents? The way I read the comment >>> Gary quoted, it's legal to have an image that is over 2GB in size, >>> as long as each file inside that image is no larger than 2GB. > >>Careful - the comment was about mkisofs, although it was in the kernel >>source. It definitely says file*systems* >2GB are legal, otherwise it >>says mkisofs can't handle single *files* >2GB - that doesn't >>necessarily mean they're illegal. The comment may also be old and no >>longer true for current versions of standards. > >It is hard to implement things in mkisofs that cannot be tested.
Well such a resulting volume could certainly be tested, but I understand that *IX developers may not have non-*IX systems readily available.
