From: Pierre Riteau (pierre.riteaugmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2009 - 11:34:31 CST

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On 1 fivr. 09, at 18:11, Toni Mueller wrote:

> On Sun, 01.02.2009 at 13:01:52 +0000, Matthew Szudzik
<mszudzikandrew.cmu.edu
> > wrote:
>> See
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#The_4_GiB_.28or_2_GiB_depending_on_impl
ementation.29_file_size_limit
>
> Thanks for the heads-up, but
>
>> Some operating systems can handle files up to 4GB on an ISO 9660
>> filesystem, and other operating systems can handle more than 4GB.
>> But
>> if you want your ISO 9660 filesystem to be fully portable, you should
>> stick to the 2GB limit.
>
> if I'm not mistaken, quite a bit of software today comes on DVDs,
> crammed to the brim. So I wonder whether the standard has been
> extended, whether there's a convention about how to deal with larger
> files, or whether it's sheer accident that it works.
>
> Besides, having media types that can't be fully utilized is neither
> useful nor acceptable, imho, but the solution can't be "make only
> smaller media".

You seem to be mistaken.
The 4GB file limitation is for files *INSIDE* an ISO file system, not
for the ISO itself.
You can use the UDF format to store larger files (and avoid other
limitations too, like filename length), but it might not be as portable
as an ISO file system.

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