udf

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon May 19 14:15:55 UTC 2008


on 16/05/2008 19:48 Scott Long said the following:
> There is no write support in UDF in FreeBSD.  When I wrote the fs code,
> packet writing was the only way to do discrete writes, and it's very
> hard to make that work with a traditional VM system.  Now with DVD+R,
> it's probably worth someone's time to look at it (though the append-only
> nature of +R means that there are still some nasty VM complications to
> deal with).  Until that happens, mkisofs can be used to create a static
> UDF filesystem.

BTW, Remko has kindly notified me that Reinoud Zandijk has completed his
long work on UDF write support in NetBSD. I think that porting his work
is our best chance to get write support in FreeBSD too.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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