Compact Disc File System

Not to be confused with ISO 9660.

The Compact Disc File System (CDFS) is a file system for read-only and write-once CD-ROMs developed by Simson Garfinkel and J. Spencer Love at the MIT Media Lab between 1985 and 1986.^[1] The file system provided for the creation, modification, renaming and deletion of files and directories on a write-once media. The file system was developed with a write-once CD-ROM simulator and was used to master one of the first CD-ROMs in 1986. CDFS was never sold, but its source code was published on the Internet and the CD-ROMs were distributed to Media Lab sponsors. The file system is the basis of WOFS (Write-once File System),^[2] sold by N/Hance systems in 1989.

References

1. Simson L. Garfinkel (September 1986). "A File System for Write-Once Media" (PDF). MIT Media Lab.
2. Simson L. Garfinkel (1991). "Designing a Write-once File System" (PDF). Dr. Dobb's Journal.