> I just came across this today after burning backups to dvd-r.  The file that
> caused the problem is 2,471,265,365 bytes.  After searching a little bit
> I found that the kernel doesn't like the size even though it's valid (That
> is from what I read).  So I did this:

2.6 took a better route making cruft a mount time option.
I use the attached patch against 2.4.28, ported from the
patches by Andries Brouwer posted at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103420043728469&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108808967926140&w=2

Why do I have a feeling that Marcelo would reject this :/

Ozkan Sezer