[SunHELP] 2gb limit

Chris Pinnock cjep at fawlty.net
Sun Sep 8 07:14:05 CDT 2002


On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:26:11AM -0400, Tim Longo wrote:
> I am using mkisofs to create an iso image of some directories.  I've noticed
> that on one machine, the mkisofs process fails when the iso image reaches
> 2GB.  On a second machine, the process completes properly.  Both machines
> are running Solaris 8(64-bit), and using the same binary (of mkisofs), and
> mounting the same nfs file system where the image is being created.  What
> else could be causing this failure??
> 
> Many thanks.

Just a thought (not sure if this is the right answer): is your mkisofs
32-bit? You might need to do something with lfcompile(5) to allow a
32-bit app to manipulate large files.

cheers,
-- 
Chris



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