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CD Recording FAQ
6. Creating custom DataCDs
6.4. Readability among different operating systems
While ISO compliance ensures that a cd will be readable under different operating systems, being restricted in 8+3 character long filenames is unacceptable. Luckily, there are alternatives as well.
Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, use a file system (or rather
an extension to the ISO 9660 standard) known as Rock Ridge, which is a
native Unix file system primarilly developed by Sun for Solaris and can
be considered a really superior one. Rock Ridge allows to store not only
long file names under many levels of nested directories, but also right
permissions, and it can be read under a large number of operating systems.
Not only that, but also cd mastering programs which run under Windows
allow the inclusion of a Rock Ridge volume descriptor. This makes possible
the exchange of data under completely different platforms, such as Windows,
Solaris and Linux.