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Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD



On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:08:43 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote:

> On 16 February 2010 16:51, Camaleón wrote:
>> Package "udftools" comes with "wrudf" which is decribes as:
>>
>> ***
>> wrudf - Maintains a UDF filesystem (undocumented) ***
> 
> Ah yes...  wow, it is quite undocumented, isn't it...

Yes :-(
 
>> Not sure why you need a UDF filesystem :-?.
> 
> I wanted:
> 1. A filesystem that works easily on the other major OSs - narrows it
> down to FAT, NTFS, or UDF

Even NTFS should be better in this sitution :-}

> 2. A filesystem that doesn't screw up permissions (eg. all my files set
> to a+rwx when I copy them back off FAT) - narrows it down to UDF :/

¿NTFS? It should fit some of your requirements (works on windows, linux 
and MacOS -I think-) and allows ACL.
 
> But if it's flaky and the tools are unmaintained, I guess there is no FS
> that satisfies them both and I should use ext2 or FAT (since HFS has no
> free drivers for XP).

A networked hard disk (stand-alone enclosure or attached to a computer 
via samba/nfs/sshfs) is desiderable when several OS need access on it. 
This way, filesystem does not matter at all :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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