max file size on cd9660 file system?

Joan Picanyol lists-freebsd-stable at biaix.org
Tue May 25 18:11:20 PDT 2004


* Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> [20040525 22:44]:
> 
> On May 25, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 
> >same data. Those discs will appear as HFS on Macs and ISO9660 
> >elsewhere.
> >mkisofs can create those as well - maybe burnz even uses mkisofs code?
> 
> I don't think it uses mkisofs internally, but in any case, I am still 
> wondering if anyone knows if there is a per-file size limit in the 
> ISO9660 format?  Or is is a freebsd limitation that it can't ls that 
> file?

Mmmhh... I haven't read anything but I remember having to split dumps in
order to burn them to a DVD, which implies (for me at least) that
mkisofs has a limit of anywhere between 800MB and 4GB (which ISTR was at
2GB)

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pica


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