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).

Specifications

• Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol, draft standard v1.12
• Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol, draft standard v1, rev. 1.10 (another copy)
• v1 rev. 1.09 (Jul. or Aug. 1991) exists, but no copy has been located.
• Amiga "AS" extension
• zisofs "ZF" extension

Links

• Wikipedia: Rock Ridge