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Date:      Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:31:16 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISO9660 4GB directory structures boundary limit and growisofs
Message-ID:  <4BC9E254.9070300@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <p2l3a142e751004161607h5ea399e3p182f3c6b10fc9346@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <p2l3a142e751004161607h5ea399e3p182f3c6b10fc9346@mail.gmail.com>

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Paul B Mahol wrote:
> 
> It is apparently not possible to make use of -use-the-force-luke=4gms
> on FreeBSD when appending new session after 4GB. Mounted disk
> afterwards  show nothing.
> 
> Should we allow it like linux does?

Are you claiming there is a problem when FreeBSD reads such
images or a problem with creating such images?  What
programs are you using?

This sounds like a pretty unsurprising 32-bit truncation
bug:  the filesystem structures in ISO9660 are all sector
numbers so 8TB should be the natural limit (4G sectors
times 2k bytes/sector).

Tim



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