John Summerfield wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> Tony Nelson wrote: >>> At 6:26 PM -0500 11/19/07, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >>> ... >>>> While the drives are capable of holding 8GB of data, the filesystem is >>>> *still* not capable of holding a file >= 2GB. This is usually not a >>>> problem when writing video onto these drives as the VOB filesize is < >>>> 2GB anyways. When using them to write backups of large files, games >>>> must be played to get the data to fit. >>> Why use a filesystem? I just put a tar archive directly on the media. >>> Growisofs doesn't care what file you burn. >> >> Uh, yes, it does. It creates an ISO fs containing the file(s) you want >> burnt, and the ISO fs is where the 2GB filesize limit is. > > It doesn't insist on it, see the man page: > To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso We're still talking apples and oranges here. You keep talking about writing ISO filesystems that are already built. I keep talking about building the ISO filesystem to write to the DVD. The 2GB filesize restriction lies inside the definition of the ISO filesystem. a 32 bit filesize field can't hold more than a signed 2GB value. AFAIK, it is not an unsigned field. I don't know the details, I just know it didn't work when I tried it about 18 months ago.... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
