[plug] iso9660 and 2GB filesize limit

[William Kenworthy]

I would like to know this myself.  I had a dvd burnt (on a mac) of some
backups, but linux refused to read it properly.  Eventually gave up in
disgust without finding a way around it.

At least macs and windose can read them ...

BillK

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:07, Michael Holland wrote:
> I used growisofs to write a 3,554,029,869 byte file to DVD+RW .
> It reads fine under XP, but mounting on Linux (2.6.3) shows only
> a 14,037,293 byte file, though df shows correctly 3.4G/100% .
> 
> With google, I read that iso9660 has a 2GB filesize limit.
> But damnit, both mkisofs and win-XP seem to do better.
> isoinfo also shows the iso as contaqining the 3.5BG file.
>  Can I make the linux kernel do it?
> 
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