[ale] Large Files

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 09:42:27 EST 2005


Brainfart on my part:

Left Petabyte out of the below.

Should have been: Exabyte =1000 Petabytes = 1000 * 1000 Terabytes.

Looks like UDF will be able to handle lareg files for the foreseeable future.

Greg

On 12/21/05, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Jim Philips <briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:53, fostermail at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > > Is there something I can plug into k3b in order to write 4G-plus files?
> > > TIA
> >
> > Remember that K3B itself is nothing more than a nice front end for some other
> > programs that actually write to the media. I would check the settings and see
> > what is writing to the DVD and run that program from the command line to see
> > what errors it gives. You may need another DVD authoring program, and point
> > to it in your settings for K3B.
>
> You are using UDF as your filesystem type, right?  It is the standard
> one for DVDs.
>
> Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems UDF can
> support truly huge files  (Think Exabytes!!!!!).
>
> FYI, if you don't know the new terminology:
> Exbibyte
> = 1024 Tebibytes
> = 1024 * 1024 Gibibytes
> = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Mebibytes (spelling)
> = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Kibibytes  (spelling)
> = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Bytes
>
> As opposed to:
> Exabyte
> = 1000 Terabytes
> = 1000 * 1000 Gigabytes
> = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Megabytes
> = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Kilobytes
> = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Bytes
>
> The above are being used more and more in europe and are now NIST standards.
>
> Greg
> --
> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
> Forensics for the 21st Century
>


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