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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:04:21 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        standards@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: very big files on cd9660 file system
Message-ID:  <86wtm9wzp6.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200508251153.21086.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> (Mikhail Teterin's message of "Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:53:20 -0400")
References:  <200508191942.26723.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20050820142802.E60211@delplex.bde.org> <863boytdbi.fsf@xps.des.no> <200508251153.21086.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
> No single file on a ISO9660 filesystem may exceed 4Gb?

The ISO 9660 file system was designed for a storage medium which had a
fixed capacity of 600 MB.

> Is there some newer, superceeding backwards-compatible standard -- all th=
e new
> DVD devices are now offering the media to store large files? Or is fat32 =
the
> only cross-platform option today?

You're supposed to use UDF on DVDs.  I don't think it's backward
compatible with ISO 9660.  I suspect that the reason why ISO 9660 is
being used on DVDs is compatibility with BIOSes which support booting
from ISO 9660 but not (yet) UDF.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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