DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

Toralf Lund toralf at procaptura.com
Mon Mar 7 08:30:39 UTC 2005


Toralf Lund wrote:

> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
>> On 25 Feb 2005, at 11:19, Toralf Lund wrote:
>>
>>> It seems to me that the question is not whether the file fits into 
>>> the DVD, but rather if its size fits into the variables used by 
>>> mkisofs to address files and/or doing space calculations. ("mkisofs" 
>>> is the command used to actually burn the DVD; k3b is just a 
>>> front-end to other commands.)
>>
>>
>>
>> No. mkisofs is the program used to create the image, while cdrecord 
>> or growisofs is the one used to burn that image.
>
>
> Urgh. Minor slip, there."The program used to create the filesystem", I 
> meant to say... But my point remains: The problem appears to be 
> internal mkisofs limitations, and not ISO filesystem constraints or 
> anything.

Or rather: It may well by an ISO filesystem constraint, but on the size 
of one file rather than the total filesystem size. Actually, ISO9660 is 
quite likely to have 4Gb max file size...

- Toralf




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