Re: File system for linux and windows
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:19:44 +0000, Joe wrote:
> Bhasker C V wrote:
>> Camaleón wrote:
>>> I wonder if nowadays UDF could be used to deal with this problematic
>>> :-?
>>>
>> Tried it. UDF from udftools(1.0.0b2 ) on etch creates an UDF which is
>> not working with windows.
>> I am then left only with an option to use the backup only with linux.
>> For data in windows, ntfs partitions
>> can be mounted in linux and then copied over to the backup disk. The
>> external disk can _only_ be used in
>> linux and not in windows.
>
> There are many UDF versions, and if Windows is not natively able to read
> one, it is possible that Adaptec's InCD or Roxio's DirectCD may be able
> to. They supported UDF on Windows long before Microsoft did. I was
> writing UDF to CD-Rs on Windows 98 with DirectCD.
Yes, it seems UDF 1.50 is the most widely "supported" along many OS, or
so it says Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format#Native_OS_support
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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