On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:07:25 +0100, [email protected] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
>Giulio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent >> files, as enabled by mkisofs "--iso-level 3" option for files larger than >> 4GiB-2, on Linux. >When I started to implement support for multi-extent files in Summer 2006 >in mkisofs, Linux had a problem with reading multi-extent files that are not >a multiple of 2048 bytes. IIRC, this problem disappeared in 2007 already. >BTW: IIRC, I received an I/O error for the last read before the bug was fixed. RHEL5's 2.6.18 kernel originated in 2006, so we are in that time frame. >This perfectly fits to the problem I have in mind, so it seems that >the bug was fixed long time ago. Are you sure that your kernel really does >not include the patch? Yes, the RHEL5 kernel hasn't got the patch and the patch applies cleanly to it. This is why I'm worried. I was about starting using files > 4GB w/o splitting them, my tests were OK, but now I'm worried I may find some corner cases I don't know how to test beforehand. -- [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
