On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:34:45PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:44:55AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > This seems to be a brick wall. Is HFS really this crap? > > Yup. The problem is that an HFS filesystem refers to allocation > blocks with an unsigned 16 bit integer, so while the specification > technically allows 2^32 different files, only 2^16 can actually > be taking up any space, and there are a few system files taking > up some of that, so in practical terms, it's a little smaller.
I suppose HFS+ fixes this kind of problems, is it not ? maybe using one of the userspace hfs tools you can create a HFS+ iso image ? But then are you not supposed to use ufs for DVDs ? Friendly, Sven Luther
