[Dvdrtools-users] Re: creating an iso from bz2 file 3.5 GB

[Bill Davidsen]

Bryan J. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Vijay Kumar <address@hidden>
>
> > mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type.
> > File /backup/backup-2005May23.tar.bz2 
>
>
> Not to tell you what to do, but if you have a single byte error at
> any point in that file, you'll lose the rest of the file.  And you
> won't know it until minutes upon minutes into reading the file.
>
> Remember, whether we are talking ISO9660 (with RockRidge
> extension) or UDF, you still have a full filesystem in the media.
> So there's really no need to archive the files into another.

But the compression is much better in most cases compressing the tar 
than the individual files. You could make the point that the compressed 
tar could be written directly to the DVD without playing with a 
filesystem type. In some cases the data might not fit other than as a 
compressed tar.

There are reasons for doing the compressed tar thing.