[vox-tech] burn directories to CDs

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Oct 28 14:59:02 PDT 2008


Quoting Jeffrey Nonken (jjn.lugod at nonken.net):

> There are free tools that allow certain other operating systems to  
> read and write EXT2 and EXT3 file systems, though
> a) I don't know if it'll work for CDs formatted thus;
> b) It only really supports EXT2, but if I understand correctly that  
> simply means it won't journal EXT3.

The utility of a filesystem journal on read-only media is not entirely
clear.
</deadpan>

Anyway, on CDR, I'd normally just use ISO9660 with Rockridge extensions.
You don't lose anything.


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