Re: [PATCH] fs/isofs/inode.c, 2-4GB files rejected on DVDs

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:44:30AM -0700, Jason Mancini wrote:

> +       if (inode->i_size < 0) {
> +         inode->i_size &= 0x0FFFFFFFF;
> +       }

>From memory (this was a long time ago) this was done because there
were ISO images out there with crap in the upper bits.

If that is that case and they still cause problems, we might want to
be smarter about this and generate mask depending on how large the
entire fs is or use a mount option.


  --cw
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