Re: UDF Filesystemdriver

["Bernd Mueller" <b.mueller@ob.kamp.net>]

Hey,

> What is UDF?

I searched twice, over the net and here. So this is what i found:

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So what's UDF, you ask?

It's a newer CDROM filesystem standard that's required for DVD roms. It's
meant to be a replacement for the ISO9660 filesystem used on today's CDROMs,
but the immediate impact for most will be DVD. DVD multimedia cdroms use the
UDF filesystem to contain MPEG audio and video streams.
To access DVD cdroms you would need a DVD cdrom drive, the kernel driver for
the cdrom drive, some kind of MPEG video support, and a UDF filesystem
driver (like this one). Some DVD cdroms may contain both UDF filesystems and
ISO9660 filesystems. In that case, you could get by without UDF support.

UDF can also be used by CD-R and CD-RW recorders in what's known as "packet
writing". By using "packet writing", CDs can be written to more efficiently,
in both disk space used, and the time it takes to write the CD. Adaptec's
DirectCD is a Win95/WinNT example of packet writing, using the UDF version
1.5 filesystem.

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bye
/ Bernd /

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