>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

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