ISO9660 file size limitation

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

I just came across this today after burning backups to dvd-r.  The file that
caused the problem is 2,471,265,365 bytes.  After searching a little bit
I found that the kernel doesn't like the size even though it's valid (That
is from what I read).  So I did this:

--- inode.c-old	2004-11-17 17:50:51.000000000 -0500
+++ inode.c	2004-11-17 17:57:44.000000000 -0500
@@ -1218,12 +1218,16 @@
 	 * WARNING: ISO-9660 filesystems > 1 GB and even > 2 GB are fully
 	 *	    legal. Do not prevent to use DVD's schilling@fokus.gmd.de
 	 */
+#if 0
 	if ((inode->i_size < 0 || inode->i_size > 0x7FFFFFFE) &&
 	    inode->i_sb->u.isofs_sb.s_cruft == 'n') {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: defective CD-ROM.  "
 		       "Enabling \"cruft\" mount option.\n");
 		inode->i_sb->u.isofs_sb.s_cruft = 'y';
 	}
+#else
+	inode->i_size &= 0xFFFFFFFF;
+#endif
 
 	/*
 	 * Some dipshit decided to store some other bit of information


It seems to work for me, but I would like to know if doing this might cause
problems.  The large file is a tar.gz.  After doing the above modification
and loading the module, I ran gzip -t on the file.  gzip reported the file
was ok.  With out doing "inode->i_size &= 0xFFFFFFFF", I noticed that the
file size was 18446744071885849685 (0xFFFFFFFF934C8455)

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