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Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: very big files on cd9660 file system
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> Mostly (b).  Sizes are 64 bits in the standard, but FreeBSD has always
> silently discarded the highest 32 bits and corrupted the next highest
> bit to a sign bit, so the file size limit is at most 2GB or 4GB
> (depending on whether the sign bit gets corrupted back to a value bit).

ISO9660 does not use 64-bit values.  Those 8-byte values you see in
the headers are 32-bit values stored first in little-endian format and
second in big-endian format.

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