Markus Kuhn wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2001-02-02 13:14 UTC:
> > > The commonly used implementation level of ISO 9660
> > > restricts filenames to a 8.3 format and the ASCII subset [A-Z0-9_]
> >
> > Seems you forgot about Rockridge and Joliet.
>
> These are just pre-ISO 13346/UDF hacks not really worth mentioning any
> more. Will hopefully die out soon. Aren't used on DVD fortunately. ISO
> 13346 is really much much better than ISO 9660. Long Unicode filenames,
> suitable for read/write media, capable of coexisting with ISO 9660 file
> structure information for backwards compatibility.
The life-time of a CD-ROM is over a hundred years. The existing formats won't
die out. Their use will go down, but never to zero percent. I would be very
disappointed if support for my shelve full of CD-ROMs was dropped.
Does ISO 13346 store file names with Unicode? That sounds like a good
solution. Hopefully this avoids that yet another format will be introduced
later.
> If people had a bit of imagination, they would start using ISO 13346 (=
> ECMA-167) also on floppy disks and we would finally have a proper
> international floppy disk standard format. Unfortunately, Redmond
> decided to go for hacks such as Joliet and VFAT instead.
Floppy disks are currently used because they have a standard (FAT) format.
Changing this would break the purpose they are used for, it won't happen.
Several attempts have been done to introduce a new floppy (-like) medium
(backwards compatible), but none of them have been successful.
A new filesystem on the same 1.4M floppy format has the same
problem as introducing a new physical medium. I don't see it happening.
The rewritable CD-ROM looks like a good candidate, but there is not one format
that everybody supports, thus then we're back to the filesystem format
problems.
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