[ILUG] Alternative filesystems on a DVD

[Glenn Strong]

On Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 13:51 +0000, Malcolm Tyrrell wrote:
> My questions:
> 1. Is ext3 suitable for long terms storage on a DVD?
> 2. If not, can someone suggest a more suitable filesystem that doesn't have silly restrictions
> on file naming and path depth.

As far as I know:

 1. No real problems (modulo the usual questions as to whether DVD/CDR
    media count as long term)

 2. Nope.

You will be giving up a degree of compatibility with non-linux
machines, of course, but at least for this application I could see
that not being a problem.

-- 
Glenn Strong