[openbeos] Re: ISO-9660 BFS filesystem extension
- From: "john 'soco' robinson" <soco@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:30:14 +0100
which is why you would just use zip and zip
up all your data and then throw it on a cd
or use UDF. :)
ISO has had enough extensions and it's got
some crappy limitations like filename length
among other things. UDF is the way to
go for the future. i don't know of a modern
OS that doesn't support UDF already other than
BeOS.
you can trudge along and make some extension.
then if you don't modify makeiso you're going to
have to create at least one other program and
probably heavily modify an ISO driver. all the
ones for BeOS that i've seen have some pretty
bad shortcomings. (for example they don't
support level 3 where you can have
fragmented files which are becoming
more common thanks to directCD). i think you
may spend a good deal of time attempting to hack
the ISO driver to provide this functionality. valuable
time that could've been spent elsewhere, IMO.
i think the better alternative is to have someone spend
time writing and improving the windows and linux
drivers or maybe make a btools portable program
that's similiar to mtools and ltools. i posted a GNU
version of the NT IFS SDK a few days ago.
it's free.
then in this process we modernize BeOS by giving it
UDF support finally and inrease it's interoperability.
however this is just my opinion :)
-soco
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