[TriLUG] Rock Ridge Extensions

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:26 -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Take a look at the man page.  There are two options.  You can either
> do -r and it will do RockRidge with the specified user/group/permissions
> from the files themselves, or you can do -R and it will convert them
> to anonymous so that they can be read by anyone who mounts the CD.
> 
> -R -J works very well together.


Hi folks,

Occasionally, Rock Ridge extensions will work when Joliet won't.  It has
nothing to do with interactions between the two -- it occurs when you
have a very large number of long file names that are similar.  For
whatever reason, Joliet will barf on such inputs and Rock Ridge is OK
with them.  I have been able to routinely trigger this failure by making
ISO images of my large-ish collection of emails stored by Evolution.

Ed

-- 
Edward H. Hill III, PhD
office:  MIT Dept. of EAPS;  Rm 54-1424;  77 Massachusetts Ave.
             Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
emails:  eh3 at mit.edu                ed at eh3.com
URLs:    http://web.mit.edu/eh3/    http://eh3.com/
phone:   617-253-0098
fax:     617-253-4464