On 16 Dec, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>  > It looks like mkisofs has a 2GB max file size limit 
>   
>  Surely that's your filesystem... 

No, the file is 4.2GB in size.  The error message comes from mkisofs.

: /data/cdimages/tmp; ls -l
total 4092696
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     4186821632 Dec 14 23:13 cpio-bkp

I did a Google search, and found a few other people have been
discovering this over the last year or so.  I didn't see any solution
mentioned.

There's a page that describes the UDF file format for DVDs, which states
that it's not a problem with the UDF spec, but that most software
(Windows included) can't write a file bigger than 2GB.  Presumably
because they've used signed 32 bit ints in their code.

There was one mention of someone who used dvdrecord to write a 4GB file
once.

luke

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