Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:04:21 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: standards@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: very big files on cd9660 file system Message-ID: <86wtm9wzp6.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200508251153.21086.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> (Mikhail Teterin's message of "Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:53:20 -0400") References: <200508191942.26723.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20050820142802.E60211@delplex.bde.org> <863boytdbi.fsf@xps.des.no> <200508251153.21086.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> writes: > No single file on a ISO9660 filesystem may exceed 4Gb? The ISO 9660 file system was designed for a storage medium which had a fixed capacity of 600 MB. > Is there some newer, superceeding backwards-compatible standard -- all th= e new > DVD devices are now offering the media to store large files? Or is fat32 = the > only cross-platform option today? You're supposed to use UDF on DVDs. I don't think it's backward compatible with ISO 9660. I suspect that the reason why ISO 9660 is being used on DVDs is compatibility with BIOSes which support booting from ISO 9660 but not (yet) UDF. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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