Subject: Re: DVD drives
To: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/27/1999 15:41:46
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Castor Fu wrote:
: It's not clear that all DVD-ROM's use iso-9660. There's apparently a
: newer file system format called UDF. This web page indicates it has some
: advantages over iso-9660 for multisession disks.
:
: http://www.trylinux.com/projects/udf/index.html
UDF exists for CD-ROMs, too. Just like ISO9660, the filesystem can be
larger than 660MB.
NetBSD doesn't support it yet. I've been told that Win98 does.
My suggestions for using ISO9660 on DVD-ROMs were to respond to `how to
write DVDs', not necessarily how to read `all' of them. :)
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