[plug] iso9660 and 2GB filesize limit

[Michael Holland]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Michael Holland wrote:

> > If you see that "defective CD-ROM" message in syslog, then I'd guess
> > that the attached patch (written by me, utterly untested, use at your
>
> Eh, WTF. But I'll do a backup first.

One nervous kernel patch later ...

% ll /cd/
total 2146760083
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root                 2048 Jul 18 23:20 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root                 4096 Jun 29 10:09 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 myk  myk  18446744072968614189 Jul 18 22:10 the_closet.mpg
% ls -lh /cd/
total 2.0T
-rw-r--r--  1 myk myk 16E Jul 18 22:10 the_closet.mpg

Hmmm ... looks like the kernel and utils are quite happy with a 16 exabyte
file.  But the isofs still cannot cope with >2GB files.

% umount /cd ; rmmod isofs



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