Hi Al,
Dredging up an old email thread...
In article <4d77c151.90...@bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> writes:
> I made a decision a long time ago that the primary mode of storage would
> either be media images or uncompressed archive files (tar, or uncompressed
> zip, mostly).
So, based on the above decision, if you were archiving CD-ROM images,
you would store them as uncompressed .iso files?
Wikipedia says:
"ISO disc images are uncompressed and do not use a particular
container format; they are a sector-by-sector copy of the data
on an optical disc, stored inside a binary file."
Therefore the best way to archive CD-ROM images is to use straight
ISO since partial corruption of the file wouldn't corrupt the whole
image.
Am I following your reasoning correctly?
Thanks,
-- Richard
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