Re: CD format

From: Alexis Cousein (al_at_brussels.sgi.com)
Date: 06/03/04

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    Rock Eater wrote:

    > * Joliet
    > Select this option if you want to use file names that contain up to 64
    > characters in length, including spaces. This is the default option and is
    > used to record most discs. Joliet also records the associated DOS-standard
    > name (8+3 characters) for each file so that the disc may be read on DOS
    > systems or earlier versions of Windows.

    You need something that supports RockRidge (instead of its Microsoft sibling).

    Of course, if these are arhives, you can also make a tarball and put that on
    a straight ISO9660 filesystem.

    >
    > *UDF
    > Select this option if you want a file system for use with recordable optical
    > disc technologies, such as DVD. This is especially useful when burning very
    > large files (greater than 1 GB). The UDF file system allows greater
    > flexibility than the Joliet or ISO 9660 file system.

    That would also work, but only on very recent IRIX releases. 

    -- 
Alexis Cousein                   Senior Systems Engineer
alexis@sgi.com                   SGI/Silicon Graphics Brussels
<opinions expressed here are my own, not those of my employer>
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