Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:04:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Erminio Baranzini <aredat@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? Message-ID: <20020914160456.47748.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <87n0qkzo1b.fsf@stati11.pr.net.ch>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> 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
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