two issues with cdfs

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Sun Nov 28 23:03:17 UTC 2010


On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Alexander Best wrote:
>>> On Fri Nov 26 10, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> on 26/11/2010 00:25 Alexander Best said the following:
>>>> 
>>>>> 1) take a > 4 GB example.file
>>>> 
>>>> Likely we don't support multi-extent files at the moment.
>>> 
> i found a way to access the data on such disks. i simply copied the whole iso
> to my hdd using dd and then threw tar at it. since tar understands cdfs and
> also seems to support multi-extent i got the whole file. :)

I believe this works without actually copying the image:

   tar xvf /dev/cd0

Cheers,

Tim



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