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Overview

Apple Macintosh computers use the HFS (or HFS+) file system on hard disks, mainly.

The HFS file system has more properties than FAT file systems (which are mainly used on the Windows operating system) do, for example:

date of last backup
file type
creator code
flags and data for display
reference to a resource fork

When Apple saw the need to store Macintosh files on CD-ROMs in a way that was still readable by non-Macintosh systems, they chose to use the ISO 9660 format and extended it.

The way the extended information gets stored on an ISO 9660 volume allows a non-aware operating system to still be able to read most of the Macintosh file data.

The result is that the above listed information is simply not visible to the non-aware system, but it would not be able to use that information anyways, most of the time.

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