Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752602AbYAMOcS (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751269AbYAMOcI (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:32:08 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:37119 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbYAMOcH (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:32:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:32:04 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: xerces8 cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: isofs maintainer and write support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 23 On Jan 13 2008 14:28, xerces8 wrote: > >I write here as the MAINTAINERS file has no entry about the isofs. > >The question is : Is there any plan/way/idea to have read/write support >for isofs ? > >I know of user space tools that can perform any operation (like >create/read/write/rename/delete file/directory) but that is nowhere >as convenient as a real filesystem. No. ISO-9660 is not meant to be randomly written, just like romfs, cramfs and squashfs and .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 files. Userspace tools recreate the whole ISO (or are very smart in reordering blocks). Use UDF instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/