A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under
all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use
it, is grab a bunch of stuff you want to backup/record and use mkisofs and
cdrecord to dump it onto a CD. Everything I read seemed to indicate that
this method limits you to the 8.3 filename format of iso9660 and all
Rockridge does is add file/group permissions and ownership. is there any
CD recording utilities/formats that can do long filenames (hopefully with
Unix permissions)?
Next question. Under Windows, there was a program called Adaptec
Direct CD that pretty much allowed you to treat a CD-RW disc as "a really
big floppy disk" (I think that was from the docs). You can save a file to
the CD-RW and then delete it later if you want to. Would it be possible,
or even feasible, to implement something like this in FreeBSD?
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In computer terms, hardware is the stuff you can hit with a baseball bat,
and software is the stuff you can only swear at.
-from a web page explaining what hardware, software, and firmware are
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