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- From: rex@cs.su.oz.au (Rex Monty di Bona)
- Subject: Re: vendor independent file system format for M-O drives
- Reply-To: rex@cluster.cs.su.oz (Rex Monty di Bona)
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:24:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.012406.12836@cs.su.oz.au>
- References: <1992Dec11.152846.25238@drd.com>
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- In article <1992Dec11.152846.25238@drd.com> mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien) writes:
- > I've been mulling over getting a magneto-optical r/w drive for office
- > use on which I would install my home dir and maybe other current
- > projects. The idea being that I could eject the media, take it home and
- > use it there for work.
-
- > Is there a file-system format I could format such a media to that has a
- > liklihood of working across vendor platforms? I know that ISO-9660/Rock
- > Ridge was intended to be such a format for CD-ROMs ... is it possible
- > (or even desirable) to format M-O/RW media with that format so that it
- > can be taken from system to system?
-
- Currently - No. But, there is a standard being defined that, if
- implemented, will allow you to do exactly this...
-
- The standard (draft) is called ECMA 167. I have a copy as at july this
- year. Basically it is a portable filesystem for WORM/CD-ROM/MO drives.
-
- When (if) the filesystem becomes available on all the platforms you want
- to use then it'll be the choice. Up until then, no, you can't easily do
- what you want
-
- Also, I'd think twice about using the MO drive as a home drive. It's slow,
- like really slow, to use. Well, maybe not that slow, but I'd think
- twice about using it as a heavily used filesystem.
- --
- Rex di Bona (rex@cs.su.oz.au) Penguin Lust is NOT immoral
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