From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Adams Subject: Re: CD writing in ext2 filesystem Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:34:46 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <02042518344606.04696@unix.pa3gcu> References: <200204232318.55166.mssnlayam@cs.annauniv.edu> <1019641504.16651.14.camel@Zebra> <200204250727.51401.mssnlayam@cs.annauniv.edu> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200204250727.51401.mssnlayam@cs.annauniv.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Suriya Narayanan M S , Paul Furness Cc: GNU/Linux Newbie On Thursday 25 April 2002 17:00, Suriya Narayanan M S wrote: > On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:15, Paul Furness wrote: > > Is there a particular reason why you were trying to put an ext2 fiole > > system on the CD rather than an ISO9660 one? > > Yes. One would like to have all the filesystems to be of the same > type. It would be easier to handle and there would be no > inconsistencies. It (the one you use regularly) is the best filesystem > to backup data. > > But the main advantage (of using ext2) is that you get a > filesystem which is the same as your native system. Permissions, > ownership, symlinks, pipes, device files..... (all the great features > of ext2) get taken care of. Most of the above would > not be possible with iso9660. The Rockridge extensions handle them > well. However it too has a problem with the maximum depth > of a directory tree. UUM, excuse me for only thinking, but, if one creates a tarball and then burns it to a cd, one then has the same, or am i missing something here.????? How do you think a linux distribution comes on a cdrom.???? Its iso9660 of course, but when its copied onto a H/D it has permissions of its piers. I do not see your point of view here, if i am missing something please tell me, i am at a loss as to what in the world it could be. > > If you do not need your CD to be accessed on other OSs > then ext2 is the best bet. > > Bye, > Suriya Narayanan M S -- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs