On Sat 09 Mar 2019 at 20:31:36 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
I did not mean using UDF on opticals discs but on regular drives, just
as any other general purpose filesystem. I once considered using it
for file sharing between Windows and Linux instead of the usual FAT
and NTFS. Indeed UDF is natively supported as a read-write filesystem
by both Linux and Windows, natively supports POSIX permissions and
does not suffer from FAT file size limitations. And I was surprised to
discover that the label set by Windows was not the label read by Linux
and vice versa.
Without reading a review of how it performs, I'd worry about using it
as a general purpose filesystem. It sounds as if it's designed mainly
for handling specific issues raised by particular devices.
You wrote that the filesystem label was independent of any OS.
No, I wrote "A filesystem that has a label, has that label regardless
of any OS." In other words, if you hold a filesystem (on a device) in
your hands, the label is still present, as a property of the
filesystem, written there as a sequence of characters.
This is in contrast to the string /dev/disk/by-label/LABEL which is
effectively an artefact of the operating system, dependant on the
device being connected to a particular type of OS, and not written
anywhere on the device itself.