Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:23:45 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org, standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: very big files on cd9660 file system Message-ID: <863boytdbi.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20050820142802.E60211@delplex.bde.org> (Bruce Evans's message of "Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:09:46 %2B1000 (EST)") References: <200508191942.26723.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20050820142802.E60211@delplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > Mostly (b). Sizes are 64 bits in the standard, but FreeBSD has always > silently discarded the highest 32 bits and corrupted the next highest > bit to a sign bit, so the file size limit is at most 2GB or 4GB > (depending on whether the sign bit gets corrupted back to a value bit). ISO9660 does not use 64-bit values. Those 8-byte values you see in the headers are 32-bit values stored first in little-endian format and second in big-endian format. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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