Re: Linux, ISOFS, multi-extent files: what's the status?
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.cd-record |
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| Organization | TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY |
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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? -- Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein