> > Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD
> > with the full filenames preserved?  I tried specifying Joliet and Rock
> > Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being
> > altered.
> 
> AFAICR none of the available CD filesystems support the full range of
> Unix filenames.
> 
> If this is for backup purposes you might be better off just making a tar
> file and burning that directly to CD - tar is designed for archiving,
> after all. The resulting CD will be readable by e.g. "tar
> tvf /dev/cdrom".

I ended up tar'ing it and it works fine.  Thanks for everyone's help.

- Grant

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