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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:38:28 +0200
From:      Florian Bofinger <bofax@camelot.de>
To:        mkes@ra.rockwell.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what filesystem for DVD
Message-ID:  <20000817233828.A85638@camelot.de>
In-Reply-To: <OF8D6CE2F0.08C0B953-ONC125693C.0046B064@ra.rockwell.com>; from mkes@ra.rockwell.com on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:02:19PM %2B0200
References:  <OF8D6CE2F0.08C0B953-ONC125693C.0046B064@ra.rockwell.com>

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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:02:19PM +0200, mkes@ra.rockwell.com wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> I have server runing FreeBSD 4.0 and we have recently installed SCSI DVD
> drive on that machine.
> The main reason is that we wanted to use this for sharing of MSDN (M$
> developer network)  library ( help files etc.) which M$ today offers also
> on DVD.
> Now the problem is that when mounted as cd9660 filesystem it allows me to
> read only CDROMs but not the DVD.
> 
> What filesystem should I use to be able to read the DVD ?

It's UDF which is not supported by FreeBSD at the moment. If you want
to write your own DVDs, you can use UFS, which is not the best choice
for magneto-optical media but it works fine (at least it does for me on a
Toshiba DVD-RAM).

Greetings,
		Florian

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