Re: [PATCH] iso9660 inodes beyond 4GB

[Andrew Morton]

Paul Serice <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The ISO 9660 standard allows meta-data to be stored at almost any
> arbitrary byte on the file system.  The current inode scheme uses the
> byte offset as the inode value making it easy to find the underlying
> block and block offset.
> 
> This scheme is subject to obvious integer overflow problems that
> prevents it from being able to reach meta-data beyond the 4GB
> boundary.  Looking back through the archives, this problem was
> anticipated but discounted because mkisofs puts its meta-data near the
> beginning of the file system.

Dumb question: why not simply use a 64-bit type in the inode?

> The patch is about 28K and can be downloaded from the following URL:
> 
>      http://www.serice.net/shunt/linux-2.6.6-isofs.patch

It goes 404.  Please just send the patch directly to the mailing list.
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