From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 26 8:39: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A6D37B77A for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA65864; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:39:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:39:18 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: John Reynolds Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anything more current info on UDF support/activities? In-Reply-To: <14558.13857.889817.169398@whale.home-net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm in the process of investigating UDF with the aim of producing a UDF filesystem (possibly only read-only) and a UDF enabled version of mkisofs (porst/sysutils) I have all the appropriate specs and standards here and have been reading them. I also have the linux UDF code as of a month or two back. I'd love to see the MACOS-X UDF code but it doesn''t seem to be released in those parts they have made public. The UDF filesystem is not rocket science but the documents describing it are in "ISO-Standardese" which means that they are almost IMPOSSIBLE to read. EVERYTHING is defined in the least useful manner possible, and no overall architecture is given. they just specify every single field, and you have to piece the big picture together from about 200 pages of minute fragments. I'm about ready to start some coding, but I still have a few details to figure out from the docs. (In the mean while all CDs and DVDs should also have a ISO9660 filesystem in parallel, pointing at the same data) (for a couple of years anyhow) (that is what the standard for DVDs say) Julian On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, John Reynolds wrote: > > Hello all, > > I was fishing through the archives this morning (sorting by date) > looking for information about support for UDF filesystems. I saw that > there was a lot of explaination as to what UDF was and a lot of > comments stating "no, we don't 1998. > > Is there any "newer" information regarding UDF support (or lack > thereof)? Is anybody currently working on at least read-only support? > Does anybody know if Apple is planning on contributing efforts in this > arena (I saw several postings from people working on Mac OS X > regarding UDF and one of them being an advertisement for a job for > somebody to develop UDF support ...)? > > Just curious. > > Thanks for any info, > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation > jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running > jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. > http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message