This here DVD-RAM thing

[Scott Long]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Pete French wrote:
> > Don't believe what your vendor says - for example LG's formatting tool and
> > documentation for Windows claims NTFS isn't possible either, but it
>
> Umm, sorry - not what I meant. What I meant was that I didnt think it was
> supported under 4-STABLE FreeBSD. What program did you use to format
> the drive as UDF ? Or are you using -CURRENT (which I have not yet tried,
> though the nice new amd64 is just begging for testing 5.2.1 when its out)
>
> -pcf.
>

DVD-RAM drives have been supported for quite some time.  UDF support is
only for 5.x and only read-only at the moment.  In any case, I know of
people that use UFS on DVD-RAM in 4.x on a regular basis.  It gives the
appearance of being no different than a normal drive.

Scott