Dual layer dvd burning

[John Summerfield]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 6:26 PM -0500 11/19/07, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>  ...
>>> While the drives are capable of holding 8GB of data, the filesystem is
>>> *still* not capable of holding a file >= 2GB.  This is usually not a
>>> problem when writing video onto these drives as the VOB filesize is <
>>> 2GB anyways.  When using them to write backups of large files, games
>>> must be played to get the data to fit.
>> Why use a filesystem?  I just put a tar archive directly on the media.
>> Growisofs doesn't care what file you burn.
> 
> Uh, yes, it does.  It creates an ISO fs containing the file(s) you want
> burnt, and the ISO fs is where the 2GB filesize limit is.

It doesn't insist on it, see the man page:
        To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:

             growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso





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