Re: [Dvdrtools-users] dvdrecord failing for large files (2GB)

[Allan Peda]

Hi, 

Thanks for he quick reply.  I googled all over the place, and I saw some
claims that it was kernel related, but I can easily create a 3.0GB file
using other utilities (like cp, or dd) 

address@hidden workarea]$ uname -r
2.4.20-18.8

And I can create a big (2.9GB) empty file:
address@hidden workarea]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/backup/tmp/zerofile.foo
count=6000000
6000000+0 records in
6000000+0 records out
address@hidden tmp]$ ls -lhd *
-rw-rw-r--    1 allan    allan        2.9G Jun 12 14:34 zerofile.foo

So I figured that it was (is) not related to the kernel.

/a

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:04, A E Lawrence wrote:
> Allan Peda wrote:
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I am trying to backup some database dumps that are about 3.5GB in size. 
> > Currently they compress very nicely to ~600MB, so my problem is really
> > an annoyance right now.  Still the tables are growing.
> > 
> > Has anyone solved or worked around this 2GB single file mkisofs
> > restriction?  I tried using microedge software to do the backups,
> > controlling the DVD recorder (the venerable Pioneer A-105), but it has
> > it's own issues.
> > 
> > Once again, the error is:
> > 
> > mkisofs -r -J -udf -o db_dump.iso db.dump
> > 
> > mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File db.dump is too
> > large - ignoring
> > 
> > mkisofs -version
> > mkisofs 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> It is nothing to do with mkisofs, but IIRC your kernel. This has been 
> answered before: see the archives. Which kernel are you running?
> 
> 
> ael [off-list - an expert will probably reply on list]
> 
> 
> 
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