In my case I'm simply generating large audio/video files that occasionally run over 2GB in size.
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:12, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:39, Andr� Dalle wrote: > > I posted a while back about the same issue. I have the same error with mkisofs. > > I have no troubles building 4+ GB ISO images, and burning them, so long as files >are > > less than 2GB. > > I can create ISO images consisting of 2+GB files from Prassi PrimoDVD 2.0 > > in Windows. > > Are you sure it is creating ISO9660 images? Or could it be using either > an extension or another format (like UDF)? > > [ NOTE: I honestly don't know myeslf, I haven't read the ISO9660 spec ] > > > I can loopback mount these images under Linux and access files just fine, and > > burn them with dvdrecord. > > This is my current workaround - I generate the iso from the Windows-based app, > > writing it to my Linux system, which is running Samba 2.2.7. > > BTW, I'm curious why you'all are mastering images with such large files? > > I hope you're not putting large tar.gz in them. Considering that: > > A) All it takes is a single byte error to destroy your entire archive > from that point forward, and > B) This double-archiving (remember, CD images are a type of archive > format) results in exponentially increasing the time it takes to access > files > > As such, using big, single file tar.gzs are not recommended. > > If you feel you must "double archive," at least using something like > afio (cpio-compatible), which does per-file compression in the archive. > In addition to removing tar.gz's "single byte total corruption" issue, > it also allows you to break up archives into multiple, independent > archives (_unlike_ using split, which still requires you to have all > pieces). > > Either that, or copy the tree you want to master, recursive gzip, bzip2 > or lzop the files themselves, and then master that. In addition to > massively decreasing suseptibility to single byte errors, you can > directly browser your tree on CD, and easily restore individual files. > If you'd prefer this, I have a script that will do this for you (it was > published in the 2002 April edition of SysAdmin). > > -- Bryan _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
