On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:36:55PM +1300, Oliver Jones wrote:
On Linux you're pretty much limited to .iso files as that is all cdrecord, mkisofs et al can use/create.
nope. naturally mkisofs can only create iso9660 images, like mke2fs creates ext2 filesystems. but cdrecord will write any stream of bits you throw at it. eg i create cds by making an ext2 image and writing that. why should i use an inferior format when it comes to storing unix filesystem information, like ownership and permissions when i can use the real thing? iso9660 may be optimized for cd reading, but loosing some of the unix infos hurts more. greetings, martin. -- offering to do: pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration, anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/