[SLL] How burn 2g+ file to DVD?

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:00PM -0800, Tim Maher wrote:
>BTW, I wonder if I might be able to save DVD space by using some
>other type of file system, since ext2 wastes quite a bit of space on
>cylinder groups and the like. Anybody know if some other standard
>FS, such as NTFS, might be able to store a single 4+Gig file with
>less overhead?

NTFS isn't a standard filesystem; you can't write to it with Linux reliably,
and besides, why would you want to?  

Two low-overhead filesystems come to mind for writing 4GB files.  You're
gonna laugh at the first one; I'm not really serious either, but I found it
interesting that it will handle (up to) 4GB files:  FAT32.  (Yes, it's MSFT,
but it's well-understood and we've been writing to it for years reliably.)

The other one is XFS.  Where ext2/3 take about 5% overhead, which can get
pretty stiff when you're talking either getting the most out of relatively
expensive media or when you get into terabyte-class filesystems, XFS'
overhead is almost trivial by comparison.  Don't see why you couldn't do the
same thing with an XFS filesystem that the article suggested doing with
ext2... 

-- Glenn

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