[Wylug-help] Readonly option in hdparm

Jon Stockill jon at stockill.org.uk
Tue Aug 5 16:17:03 BST 2003


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Julian Church wrote:

> I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think on a CD and DVD it has to be an
> ISO9660 filesystem; I am sure I haven't seen anything else on CD.  Are you
> sure you can't manage without XFS? It's main selling point seems to be
> journaling which (as I understand it) is redundant if you have a read-only
> file system.

You can use any filesystem you like - provided the system reading it knows
how to handle it.

(ISTR SGI IRIX cds used to use EFS)

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Jon Stockill
jon at stockill.org.uk




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