[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Raymond McLaughlin
>> Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> 
>>> Based on my understanding, to write onto optical media needs a
>>> filesystem format specifically
>>> designed for that. So, either iso9660 or UDF.
> 
>> Just for grims, mostly, I have tinkered with writing other formats to
>> optical media, and found it can work. The command line cdrecord, or
> the
>> later wodim, will write any binary blob you feed it to the media
> without
>> complaint. You can do the same with K3b. It will give you stern
>> warnings, but let you proceed if you insist that you know what you are
>> doing.
> 
>  Doesn't that in essence create an iso9660 filesystem with one file the
> binary blob?
> Or have I misunderstood? (I wouldn't be surprised if I had...)

I guess I was not entirely clear. The crypt.iso is written to the disk
using K3B's "Tools--->Burn DVD iso image ..." feature, not the create
new data DVD feature.

>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                (313) 227-2317