ISO 9660: Difference between revisions
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ISO 9660 is not a complex file system, but has a few quirks that are worth remembering. It seems that some operating systems also create non-compliant CD's, so beware! The main example of this is the character set that is available for file names. Strictly, this consists of A-Z (upper case only!), digits and underscores. Many operating systems also allow lower case letters and other characters. Linux's [[VFS]] displays lower case filenames to the user despite the cd contents actually containing upper case characters. |
ISO 9660 is not a complex file system, but has a few quirks that are worth remembering. It seems that some operating systems also create non-compliant CD's, so beware! The main example of this is the character set that is available for file names. Strictly, this consists of A-Z (upper case only!), digits and underscores. Many operating systems also allow lower case letters and other characters. Linux's [[VFS]] displays lower case filenames to the user despite the cd contents actually containing upper case characters. |
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Another (perhaps little-known and little- |
Another (perhaps little-known and little-utilised) feature of the ISO 9660 file system is that a single file system can span multiple CD's. This is dealt with via "set numbers". |
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=== Sector Size === |
=== Sector Size === |
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