very big files on cd9660 file system

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com> writes:
> No single file on a ISO9660 filesystem may exceed 4Gb?

The ISO 9660 file system was designed for a storage medium which had a
fixed capacity of 600 MB.

> Is there some newer, superceeding backwards-compatible standard -- all the new
> DVD devices are now offering the media to store large files? Or is fat32 the
> only cross-platform option today?

You're supposed to use UDF on DVDs.  I don't think it's backward
compatible with ISO 9660.  I suspect that the reason why ISO 9660 is
being used on DVDs is compatibility with BIOSes which support booting
from ISO 9660 but not (yet) UDF.

DES
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