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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:38:51 +0000
From:      Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: two issues with cdfs
Message-ID:  <20101129143851.GB10998@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <175752FA-9584-4EC8-835A-6A65DFCF076C@kientzle.com>
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>

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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

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a13x



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