From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ISOFS corrupt filesizes
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:45:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA2B2A8.2010402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15i4GM-0001Iw-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>1 GB comes from the fact that some old CD's actually put garbage in
>>the upper byte of the file size, so the test triggers if the size is
>>larger than any CD can be. Unfortunately, DVDs are a lot bigger than
>>CDs and that assumption is no longer correct.
>>
>
> DVD is supposed to be using 1Gb files. I don't think its a
> big issue as we support UDF too
>
Well, it's not all about DVDs used for video. I think there are
legitimate reasons to have very large files on a DVD-ROM, and they're
likely to be encoded in iso9660 format (for maximum compatibility) as
long as we don't have individual files > 4 GB.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-15 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-14 12:54 ISOFS corrupt filesizes Matthias Kramm
2001-09-14 16:06 ` Matthias Kramm
2001-09-15 0:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-15 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-15 1:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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