In , on 01/26/05 
   at 08:47 PM, Sid Gale  typed:



>It seems that mkisofs cannot write a file larger than 2GiB. Mkisofs2 
>does not have that restriction (on JFS, of course) and can be found on 
>Hobbes within the cdrtools package 
>http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/cd-r/cdrtools2-2.01.zip>. 
>For non-JFS users mkisofs2 can split the output file into smaller chunks 
>which can be recombined by dvddao when the dvd is burned. I don't know 
>if mkisofs has a similar capability. [A quick scan of the documentation 
>suggests that it does via the (same) split-output option.]

>I believe that the command line parameters of mkisofs and mkisofs2 are 
>subtly different.

Sigh.  I tried this with mkisofs2 (on a JFS partition) and watched the iso
file growing - growing - and then, when it got to around 2 gig, it went to
length 1 (about 77% complete).
 
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