From a297d3bab455209f4f13aa8d2dce3bd5cb7d9a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 13:55:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- Mastering.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Mastering.md diff --git a/Mastering.md b/Mastering.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ca6df1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Mastering.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Mastering means the creation of a set of bytes which are to be transferred +to media. This set of bytes is called "image". Mastering may happen +simultaneously with media writing or it may happen separately into a +buffer file on hard disk. + +One class of images are ISO 9660 filesystems for which libburnia provides +its mastering software [libisofs](Libisofs). These filesystems are usable +read-only with all contemporary operating systems. +Our program [xorriso](Xorriso) offers a command line interface for creating +and manipulating images on optical media or in disk filesystem objects. + +Other classes of images may be archive formats like `afio` or `star` which +have an own knowledge about their end-of-archive (`tar` has not), or various +filesystems which are specific to particular operating systems. +libburnia offers no mastering software for these but is willing +to bring them onto media by [libburn](Libburn), [cdrskin](Cdrskin), +or [xorriso](Xorriso).