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Re: DVD, UDF, ISO9660



On Thu, 31 May 2001, Richard Atterer wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:50:38PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Alexander García wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everybody!
> > > Kernel 2.4.x is out there...
> > > UDF File system is supported for readind and
> > > (writing?).
> > > Can I write on a DVD using UDF and a DVD-RW device
> > > under Linux?
> >
> > Probably yes, but I don't know what would be required for creating an UDF
> > filesystem.
> >
> > [searching...]
> >
> > It seems you need the UDF tools, available on
> >   http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf/
> > and/or
> >   http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~bfennema/udf.html
> > (what's the difference?)
> >
> > AFAICS these things (like mkudf) are not yet packaged in Debian.
> > Maybe someone can take care of that -- Cc'ing debian-devel.
>
> I think these tools are fairly important, so unless somebody else is
> very keen on doing it, (and if after some more tests I find the tools
> useable), I'm going to file an ITP sometime this weekend and package
> at least the user space 'udftools', but probably not the kernel patch.

For the record, I'm probably one of the few who how a DVD-RAM drive(which has
since been discontinued by Creative, bah).  I can test out this stuff, or even
package it, if you want.



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