Mac CDROM read problem

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:01:34PM +1000, Brett Worth wrote:
> I've been handed a CDROM which was created on a Mac.  It will mount as
> iso9660 but the filenames contain all sorts of bad characters including
> "/"s which break things altogether.
> 
> I've compiled hfs support into my kernel but I dont think that's going to
> help.  Its definitely mounting under iso9660.

Most Mac CDs are "hybrid" - they can be mounted as either ISO9660 or
as HFS.  However the long filenames and other metadata will only be
visible when mounted HFS.

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