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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:13:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chris Walth <walth@scanners.tec.mn.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDROM writing questions...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219151307.658D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980218154705.4483A-100000@scanners.tec.mn.us>

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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Chris Walth wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I am thinking about writing a couple of CDs that are ment to only be 
> read by UNIX machines.  Is there a way to preserver the long 
> file/directory names when writing the CD?  
> 
>   Is it possiable to write a standard UNIX filesystem to a CD so you can 
> just do a mount on the CD and read the files?

FreeBSD can't read UFSs off of CDs, but it does support the Rock Ridge
extensions to ISO9660 which will preserve the long filenames.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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