Rock Ridge
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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.
