From: al@imdvlf.acuson.com (Al Petrofsky) Subject: Re: Source for X port, linux on CDROM. Date: 30 Jun 1992 23:09:51 GMT
In article <1992Jun30.003322.835@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> pclink@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rick) writes:
eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>Why should we use ISO9960. It is just an MSDOS file system. We
>should be using Unix File System. The recommended one would be the
>BSD file system which is similar to POSIX(or is it POSIX).
>I hope someone could clarify.
A snippet from the cd-rom FAQ:
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16. Can you give a short explaination of ISO-9660?
[Explanation that ISO-9660 does indeed have MS-DOS's brain-dead
file naming limits]
So, why should we use it? It will make life an incredible pain, and I
don't see any compelling need to read a Linux CD from a system that
can't read a BSD fs.
-al