>From: Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > * The ISO-9660 filesystem only stores 32 bits for file size. >> >> But the ISO-9660 _standard_ stores 32 bits for the size of each >> _extent_ and there can be a virtually unlimited number of >> _extents_ in a single file at ISO-9660 Interchange Level 3.
>But can a file span multiple extents? The way I read the comment >Gary quoted, it's legal to have an image that is over 2GB in size, >as long as each file inside that image is no larger than 2GB. I >haven't actually read the spec though. >But then the whole comment seems odd. It looks to me like the >WARNING was added later, and written by Jörg. That seems to me like >the only logical way to explain why the comment says it's legal, >but the code claims it's illegal to have files that are more than >2GB in size. >Lastly, at the top of the file, there is > * 1998 Eric Lammerts - ISO 9660 Level 3 >so apparently at least someone looked at ISO Level 3 support. I'd >say send a message to linux-kernel and see what they say about >it... You should ask him why he did not test his code.... If he did test it, then the mount induced limitation would have gone long ago. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]