From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Serice <paul@serice.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iso9660 inodes beyond 4GB
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:06:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040521190602.511d188e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AD2F8A.6030306@serice.net>
Paul Serice <paul@serice.net> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-22 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 22:22 Paul Serice
2004-05-22 2:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-22 19:44 ` Paul Serice
2004-05-22 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 17:54 Paul Serice
2004-06-01 4:17 ` Neil Brown
2004-06-01 13:44 ` Paul Serice
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