Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files

[André Dalle]

I posted a while back about the same issue.  I have the same error with mkisofs.

I have no troubles building 4+ GB ISO images, and burning them, so long as 
files are
less than 2GB.

I can create ISO images consisting of 2+GB files from Prassi PrimoDVD 2.0 
in Windows.

I can loopback mount these images under Linux and access files just fine, and
burn them with dvdrecord.  

This is my current workaround - I generate the iso from the Windows-based app,
writing it to my Linux system, which is running Samba 2.2.7.



On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:37:32AM -0500, Scott Talbert wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Greg Madden wrote:
> 
> > > I have finally been able to get my Sony DRU-500A with cdrecord-ProDVD 2.0
> > > which just came out recently.  (Previous versions of ProDVD and version
> > > 0.1.2 of dvdrecord do not work for me.)
> > >
> > > Anyway, I want to use my DVD recorder to make backups of my system.  My
> > > method is to tar and gzip my files, mkisofs them, and then record to DVD.
> > > Unfortunately, my plan caused me to run into the 2GB file size limitation
> > > of mkisofs (my tar.gz files are > 2GB).  So I cannot burn them to DVD.
> > 
> > I wasn't aware there is a 2gb limitation. The only 2gb limitation I
> > recall was one due to the 2.2.x kernel series in GNU/Linux, fixed in the
> > 2.4.x series. I suppose it depends on what OS you are using.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> The limitation actually appears to be with the ISO filesystem.  mkisofs 
> ignores files larger than 2GB when you try to add them to an ISO.  See 
> below.
> 
> bear:/mnt/backup# mkisofs -r -J -o backup.iso 2003-01-19.tar.gz 
> mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File 2003-01-19.tar.gz is 
> too large - ignoring
> Total translation table size: 0
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 169
> Total directory bytes: 0
> Path table size(bytes): 10
> Max brk space used 5000
> 48 extents written (0 Mb)
> bear:/mnt/backup# ls -l 2003-01-19.tar.gz 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2627256078 Jan 19 04:33 2003-01-19.tar.gz
> bear:/mnt/backup# 
> 
> 
> 
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