mkisofs file size restrictions

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> I know that the question was discussed here, however, I did not find
> the answers quite clear. So once again:
> is it possible to burn a file larger than 4GB on a DVD? Right now, I
> can not find any solution: mkisofs would just ignore such a file. It
> was suggested here to pass a '-udf' option but it did not help me
> either. I know that in general it is ISO restrictions, but, somehow,
> the guys in Windows world managed to overcome it. So is there any
> workaround?

There was a thread a week of two ago "DVD burning - mkisofs max size 
allowed".  You might want to check it out in archives.

In short, nope, not possible.  Seems that mkisofs is limited with 32-bit 
data types.  On AMD64 there's probably no such limitation.

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