I'm in the process of investigating UDF with the aim of
producing a UDF filesystem (possibly only read-only)
and a UDF enabled version of mkisofs (porst/sysutils)
I have all the appropriate specs and standards here and have been reading
them. I also have the linux UDF code as of a month or two back. I'd love
to see the MACOS-X UDF code but it doesn''t seem to be released in those
parts they have made public.
The UDF filesystem is not rocket science but the documents describing it
are in "ISO-Standardese" which means that they are almost IMPOSSIBLE to
read. EVERYTHING is defined in the least useful manner possible, and no
overall architecture is given. they just specify every single field, and
you have to piece the big picture together from about 200 pages of minute
fragments.
I'm about ready to start some coding,
but I still have a few details to figure out from the docs.
(In the mean while all CDs and DVDs should also have a ISO9660
filesystem in parallel, pointing at the same data) (for a couple of years
anyhow) (that is what the standard for DVDs say)
Julian
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, John Reynolds wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I was fishing through the archives this morning (sorting by date)
> looking for information about support for UDF filesystems. I saw that
> there was a lot of explaination as to what UDF was and a lot of
> comments stating "no, we don't 1998.
>
> Is there any "newer" information regarding UDF support (or lack
> thereof)? Is anybody currently working on at least read-only support?
> Does anybody know if Apple is planning on contributing efforts in this
> arena (I saw several postings from people working on Mac OS X
> regarding UDF and one of them being an advertisement for a job for
> somebody to develop UDF support ...)?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Thanks for any info,
>
> -Jr
>
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