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Date:      Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:02:34 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jeff Mitchell <skeezix@skeleton.org>, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD burning..
Message-ID:  <20050805110234.GA11814@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <20050805043949.GR75379@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20050801170353.P10855@fw.skeleton.org> <20050802005219.GY75379@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050803125106.GA4047@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <20050805043949.GR75379@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On 2005-08-05 14:09, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote:
> New discovery about ISO file systems (today): you can burn symlinks to
> DVD, and they'll work under FreeBSD and Linux.  They fail under
> Microsoft.

AFAIK, that only works if the image uses the "Rock-Ridge extensions".

Microsoft operating systems have supported "shortcuts" for many years
now, but they still can't do anything useful with the RR extensions of
CD-ROM disks they mount (i.e. convert the symlinks to "fake shortcuts"
or something equally useful for the end user).




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