Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?

Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-record
Organization TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Giulio <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'd like to understand what are the pitfalls, if any, in using multi-extent
>> files, as enabled by mkisofs "--iso-level 3" option for files larger than
>> 4GiB-2, on Linux.
>>
>> I'm using 
>> 	- mkisofs 2.01.01a69
>> 	- kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 (RHEL5)
>>
>> ====
>>     
>
> When I started to implement support for multi-extent files in Summer 2006
> in mkisofs, Linux had a problem with reading multi-extent files that are not 
> a multiple of 2048 bytes. IIRC, this problem disappeared in 2007 already. 
> BTW: IIRC, I received an I/O error for the last read before the bug was fixed.
>   

There was another error having to do with reading data at the end of an 
image. Due to read ahead settings a read past end of data occurred and 
the (valid) partial data was not returned to the user program. Might 
that be what you are remembering?

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Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
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