How to create a DVD image with very large files?

[Giandomenico De Tullio]

William W. Austin ha scritto:
> On 2006-10-04 at 08:31:28, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:
> 
>> Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> ...
>>> For some reason, this makes me think that mkisofs isn't happy with
>>> my
>>> 6.5 Gbyte tarball.
>>
>> I think this is a limitation with the ISO 9660 standard.
>>
>> So a 64 bit machine, etc. etc. won't help.
>>
>> Try making a UDF file system instead.
>>
> (SNIP)
> 
> I had thought it was just a 32-bit limitation, so out of curiosity I 
> tried it on a 64-bit system.  Oops: mkisofs (x86_64) fails to make the 
> file. After looking at (and older version of) the code, I believe that 
> P. Doyle is correct.
> 
> If the UDF file system is *NOT* an option for some reason, then an 
> alternative would be to use split to break the tar file into multiple 
> (for instance just under 2GB) pieces:
> 
>     split -b 2047M -d FILE.tar TAR-part.
> 
> That command line will give you output files like
> 
>     TAR-part.00 TAR-part.01 ... TAR-part.## (last one).
> 
> Then make the iso and burn the DVD.  When you want to access the 
> original tar file on the DVD, simply
> 
>     cat TAR-part.* | tar xvf -
> 
> which will let you extract the archive as if it had never been split.
> 
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or using http://rootfs.net/fulfs/  with FUSE kernel module ;)