RE: [Dvdrtools-users] mkisofs - no largefile support for files inside UDF isos?

[Scott Prive]

I dunno... do you have another partition you can try this on?
Not knowing the root cause, I'd try that (I suspect it's your fs but that's a 
hunch).



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Dalle [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:11 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Dvdrtools-users] mkisofs - no largefile support for files
> inside UDF isos?
> 
> 
> address@hidden isos $ ls -ld test
> drwxr-sr-x    2 andre    files          42 Nov 19 00:59 test/
> 
> address@hidden isos $ ls -l test
> total 6738944
> -rw-rw-r--    1 andre    files    3446996992 Nov  6 11:33 test1.iso
> -rw-rw-r--    1 andre    files    3453681664 Nov  6 12:39 test2.iso
> 
> OK.  Granted an ISO with those 2 3.4GB files would be too 
> large to burn onto
> DVD-R.  mkisofs should not care about that.
> 
> mkisofs rejects any single file greater than 2GB:
> 
> address@hidden isos $ mkisofs -v -udf -o test.iso test
> 
> mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File 
> test/test1.iso is too
> large - ignoring
> mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File 
> test/test2.iso is too
> large - ignoring
> 
> To save on disks, I tend to burn multiple CD/DVD ISOs onto a 
> single DVD-R for
> archival purposes.
> 
> Now, I *can* create a large >2GB image, so long as it is 
> comprised of files
> less than 2GB a piece.
> 
> Finally, I get the same error with common utilities:
> 
> address@hidden isos $ file test/*
> test/test1.iso: can't stat `test/test1.iso' (Value too large 
> for defined
> data type).
> test/test2.iso: can't stat `test/test2.iso' (Value too large 
> for defined
> data type).
> 
> So, it seems as if largefile support in mkisofs is not 
> complete?  Or is this a
> problem with my system libs?
> 
> My filesystem is XFS:
> 
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus3/target1/lun0/part1 on /disks/archives type xfs
> (rw,noatime)
> 
> My system is Gentoo Linux 1.2, running with Gentoo-patched 
> 2.4.19 kernel.
> Patches include XFS/JFS support, and some other stuff I don't include.
> 
> Linux kermit.dalle.ca 2.4.19-xfs-r2 #1 Sat Nov 16 17:56:57 
> EST 2002 i686
> AuthenticAMD
> 
> ps. I tried mkisofs from the 'dvdrtools' package as well as 
> the one that comes
> with plain cdrtools, to the same effect.
> 
> -- 
> Andre Dalle                   address@hidden
> 
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