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Date:      Sun, 2 Jul 2000 19:43:30 -0400
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: UDF (DVD fs)
Message-ID:  <20000702194330.B12336@cokane.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: <200007021009.MAA17928@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:09:24AM -0400
References:  <395F10BB.2781E494@elischer.org> <200007021009.MAA17928@freebsd.dk>

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Soren Schmidt had the audacity to say:
> 
> Uhm, the real value of UDF is that it can be used as a "real" rw
> filesystem on CDRW/DVDRAM media, if this is not implemented the
> value of having UDF is very limited IMHO....
>

Not necessarily, since the cd9660 backward compatibility is not a
requirement of the standard. I have Pulp Fiction here, and it doesn't
work, because it has no 9660 compatibility.

> > In the meanwhile you should be able to mount most modern DVDs using
> > the ISO9660 filesystem as they should be "bridge" format, (in which
> > there is metadata for both types of filesystems).
> 
> Endeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :)
> 
> -Søren
> 

-- 
Coleman Kane
President, 
UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu


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