Hi Roy! :-)

 RJT> Yeah,  but we're not talking about formatting here anyway,  we're 
 RJT> talking about the next higher level of abstraction that's imposed by 
 RJT> the use of a filesystem.  You don't need one of those with a cd,  
 RJT> either.  That ISO image can containn darn near anything you want.
It can, yes, but it's very much an inconvenience not to have a filesystem
on there. It only makes real sense for sequential access media like tapes.

Ciao
Pascal

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