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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:35:06 -0500
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: two issues with cdfs
Message-ID:  <175752FA-9584-4EC8-835A-6A65DFCF076C@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101128135834.GA90165@freebsd.org>
References:  <20101125222517.GA82173@freebsd.org> <4CEFB5E0.7020205@freebsd.org> <20101126190808.GA94344@freebsd.org> <4CF02AD0.7000207@freebsd.org> <20101128135834.GA90165@freebsd.org>

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On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Alexander Best wrote:
>>> On Fri Nov 26 10, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> on 26/11/2010 00:25 Alexander Best said the following:
>>>>=20
>>>>> 1) take a > 4 GB example.file
>>>>=20
>>>> Likely we don't support multi-extent files at the moment.
>>>=20
> i found a way to access the data on such disks. i simply copied the =
whole iso
> to my hdd using dd and then threw tar at it. since tar understands =
cdfs and
> also seems to support multi-extent i got the whole file. :)

I believe this works without actually copying the image:

   tar xvf /dev/cd0

Cheers,

Tim




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