Re: ISOFS corrupt filesizes

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 20:28:54 EST


> 1 GB comes from the fact that some old CD's actually put garbage in
> the upper byte of the file size, so the test triggers if the size is
> larger than any CD can be. Unfortunately, DVDs are a lot bigger than
> CDs and that assumption is no longer correct.

DVD is supposed to be using 1Gb files. I don't think its a big issue as
we support UDF too
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