Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:19:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: CD-RW long filenames/rw filesystem. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991230141101.28572E-100000@mission.mvnc.edu>
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A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use it, is grab a bunch of stuff you want to backup/record and use mkisofs and cdrecord to dump it onto a CD. Everything I read seemed to indicate that this method limits you to the 8.3 filename format of iso9660 and all Rockridge does is add file/group permissions and ownership. is there any CD recording utilities/formats that can do long filenames (hopefully with Unix permissions)? Next question. Under Windows, there was a program called Adaptec Direct CD that pretty much allowed you to treat a CD-RW disc as "a really big floppy disk" (I think that was from the docs). You can save a file to the CD-RW and then delete it later if you want to. Would it be possible, or even feasible, to implement something like this in FreeBSD? ----- In computer terms, hardware is the stuff you can hit with a baseball bat, and software is the stuff you can only swear at. -from a web page explaining what hardware, software, and firmware are ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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