"CDFS" Cd format

[Bryan Hunter_1]

Does any one know how to write a CD in "CDFS" format? That is what hardware, software, and settings can be used to create a CD which will mount correctly with a straight "mount" command or "mount -F cdfs" command?

Does any one know where the format may be documented or what HP uses to create software distribution CDs?

[harry d brown jr]

For the format:

http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/cdfs.4.html

and some documentation:

http://iram.fr/~dumontro/doc/CD/Mastering-CD-HPUX.pdf



live free or die
harry

[Craig Rants]

Bryan,
Cool name (that's how my middle name is spelled), anyway, I am sure that Harry's links will give you a lot of good technial info, but basically there is a windows format and a unix format. Called joliet and rockridge. When a CD image is created, you can specify the format and thus determine what OS will be able to use the cd. Joliet is associated with windows and rockridge is associated with Unix. Enjoy,

C

[Wodisch]

Hello Bryan,

if you look at the "Ignite/UX" documentation about "create your own media" (and there about CD-ROMs), you'll see that what they actually do, is to burn a good old "hfs" onto the CD-ROM. Which does explain why "cdfs" is NOT proper for "ISO9660" nor "High Sierra" nor "Rock Ridge Extensions"...
To me it seems like "cdfs" is just "hfs" plus the "-r" option.

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

[Bill Hassell]

cdfs code has not changed in the last 10-12 years other than adding the -ocdcase option. The cdfs code supports basic ISO 9660 and a non-standard HP-UX format (HP-UX CDs are in this format). There is no Rockridge, Joliet or POSIX support in the cdfs code. Several years ago, the PFS code was licensed from YMI which handled Rockridge by using local rpc (NFS) calls.

The mkisofs and cdrecord programs can create compatible CDs...read the options in the man pages. Sometime soon, there will be a replacement for cdfs which will eliminate the need for PFS. Note, there will likely be no patch for 10.20, only 11.11 and later, 11.0.