From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 14:38:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id 6ADA01065675; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:38:51 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: Tim Kientzle Message-ID: <20101129143851.GB10998@freebsd.org> References: <20101125222517.GA82173@freebsd.org> <4CEFB5E0.7020205@freebsd.org> <20101126190808.GA94344@freebsd.org> <4CF02AD0.7000207@freebsd.org> <20101128135834.GA90165@freebsd.org> <175752FA-9584-4EC8-835A-6A65DFCF076C@kientzle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <175752FA-9584-4EC8-835A-6A65DFCF076C@kientzle.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: two issues with cdfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:38:51 -0000 On Sun Nov 28 10, Tim Kientzle wrote: > On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Alexander Best wrote: > >>> On Fri Nov 26 10, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>>> on 26/11/2010 00:25 Alexander Best said the following: > >>>> > >>>>> 1) take a > 4 GB example.file > >>>> > >>>> Likely we don't support multi-extent files at the moment. > >>> > > i found a way to access the data on such disks. i simply copied the whole iso > > to my hdd using dd and then threw tar at it. since tar understands cdfs and > > also seems to support multi-extent i got the whole file. :) > > I believe this works without actually copying the image: > > tar xvf /dev/cd0 ahh thanks. you're right. that's even more convenient. :) > > Cheers, > > Tim -- a13x