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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:46:25 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Olivier Tharan <olive@oban.frmug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE? 
Message-ID:  <20020913184625.A4BC85D04@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:36:37 %2B0200." <20020913183637.GY45453@weirdos.oban.frmug.org> 

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> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:36:37 +0200
> From: Olivier Tharan <olive@oban.frmug.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> * Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> (20020913 17:33):
> > ...and then write normal mkisofs produced ISO images onto the DVD ?
> > Interesting. Wiill those then mount in another system O.K., or will
> > it get confused by a DVD without a UDF filesystem on it ?
> 
> The FreeBSD DVD produced by FreeBSD Services have a ISO9660 filesystem
> on them, even though they size more than 4 Gb.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/udf/ gives UDF filesystem status for
> FreeBSD, it is now in -CURRENT if I understand the page correctly.

While DVD-RW/+RW requires UDF and it is an option for any DVD, the
vast majority of DVDs use ISO-9660 format. 9660 works fine and gives
you the added data capacity of the DVD. It's just not suitable for
re-writing.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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