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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:27:16 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DVD filesystems
Message-ID:  <20011023222716.A67119@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>

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> DVDs should according to the DVD consortium contain a UDF filesystem,
> which we do not support, however tthey are also supposed to contian foran
> "interim period" a secondary 'intermiaxed' ISO9660 filesystem on teh
> medium. (Both sets of metadata should point to the same
> data blocks...)
> 
> I started to write a UDF filesystem last year but things changed
> priority-wise and I never got past the debugging tools,.
> "One of these days"
> 
> "just a huge 9660 filesystem" is probably good enough for most people...
> Especially since we can't read a UDF filesystem..
> (and neither can old windows systems)

FWIW, the beginnings of a UDF filesystem driver can be found at 
http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/udf .  It only goes as far as reading the
directory structure of the filesystem, but the ability to read file data
is coming along.

Scott

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