Rock Ridge

File Format
Name	Rock Ridge
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Filesystem Rock Ridge
Released	~1991

Rock Ridge (Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol; RRIP) is an extension of ISO 9660 (CD-ROM) format to support POSIX (Unix-style) per-file metadata. It includes support for longer and less-restrictive filenames, file permissions, and timestamps.

Rock Ridge is standardized as IEEE P1282. It is built on top of System Use Sharing Protocol (SUSP).

Extensions

Refer to ISO 9660#Extensions. Some of the items listed there are extensions of Rock Ridge and/or SUSP.

Specifications

• Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol, draft standard v1.12 (dead ftp; pdf version; wayback)
• Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol, draft standard v1, rev. 1.10 (another copy)
• http://cd.textfiles.com/internetinfo/standards/iso/9660/rockridge/ ... - Proposal v1 rev. 1.09

See also System Use Sharing Protocol#Specifications.

Links

• Wikipedia: Rock Ridge