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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:09:29 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        mkes@ra.rockwell.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what filesystem for DVD 
Message-ID:  <200008151609.e7FG9UU19127@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:02:19 %2B0200." <OF8D6CE2F0.08C0B953-ONC125693C.0046B064@ra.rockwell.com> 

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> From: mkes@ra.rockwell.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:02:19 +0200
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> Hi everybody
> 
> I have server runing FreeBSD 4.0 and we have recently installed SCSI DVD
> drive on that machine.
> The main reason is that we wanted to use this for sharing of MSDN (M$
> developer network)  library ( help files etc.) which M$ today offers also
> on DVD.
> Now the problem is that when mounted as cd9660 filesystem it allows me to
> read only CDROMs but not the DVD.
> 
> What filesystem should I use to be able to read the DVD ?

Most DVDs are written in UDF format. This format is also used for
CD-RW disks by Adaptec DirectCD. At this time there is no FreeBSD
support for UDF, although there was a message earlier this year from
someone who was going to write it. (I'd love to be able to read the
UDF CD-RW disks from my PC.)

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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