Talk:Rock Ridge

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Would someone please fix the sentence "the long file names are argued to look better in Windows" preferably by being specific about the advantage of using Rock Ridge to create a disk that is to be read on a Windows system. Also, Microsoft says they do not support Rock Ridge format in Windows XP (is this correct? what about others versions of Windows?) so this statement is even more confusing. Thank you in advance; I really want to understand this. - TSloth

[edit] ASCII?

As I understand it, Unix filesystems don't specify "ASCII", or any other encoding. The '/' character, and probably the '\0' character are disallowed, but any other filename is just a sequence of bytes, to the kernel. This means you can declare that your system uses UTF-8 for filenames, as long as all your programs agree on this. Is my understanding correct?

So what does "almost any ASCII character" mean? Any but '/' and '\0', which means UTF-8 is safe on ISO-9660? Or are there other exceptions, which force ASCII-only?

When I read this article, I'm more interested in what Unix features it doesn't support, not what features it has that ISO-9660 doesn't. So here's my attempt at a list:

• filenames limited to ASCII (does it?)
• no hard links (correct?)

(Please correct me if I'm wrong or incomplete anywhere.)

The only bytes disallowed in filenames are '\0' and '/', and it is suggested that you create your Rock Ridge structures in UTF-8, although it is not required.

Hard links are supported even in pure ISO 9660. This allows you to create images that look like they are bigger than they actually are. You can try this using mkisofs, just create an image of a directory with hardlinked files inside.

--Miles July 1, 2005 16:21 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Should be merged with ISO 9660 — Claunia 22:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I disagree: there's a lot more information on the extension that this article could use, and that would make it too large for the ISO 9660 article. I think each extension should be fleshed out and put in a common category. -- Jon Dowland 13:48, 11 March 2006 (UTC)