From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 14 9: 5: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2DB37B436 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20802.mail.yahoo.com (web20802.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B174443E65 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aredat@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020914160456.47748.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.162.228.3] by web20802.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:04:56 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:04:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Erminio Baranzini Subject: Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <87n0qkzo1b.fsf@stati11.pr.net.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > While DVD-RW/+RW requires UDF and it is an option > for any DVD, the > vast majority of DVDs use ISO-9660 format. 9660 > works fine and gives > you the added data capacity of the DVD. It's just > not suitable for > re-writing. > Yes, but beware of the limitation of the ISO-9660 format: at most 64k "parent" directories could exist on a ISO-9660 CD or DVD. In fact, depending on the structure of your tree they could be well under 64k "parent" directories. And with 4+ GB you will quick stumble across it. mkisofs will gently remind you and refuse to prepare the image ... --------------------------------------------------- Erminio BARANZINI, Muehlemattstr. 53, CH-3007 Berne, Switzerland, aredat@yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message