On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:12:25PM -0500, Ian Turner wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 12:31, you wrote: > > Does UDF support a modern permissions system though? I thought it > > didn't, because it was designed for optical media... > > Yes. It is designed to be a superset of all common filesystems, feature-wise. > So it has support for NT ACLs, POSIX ACLs, UNIX permissions, Apple file types > and resource forks, etc. > > I dunno if Windows is OK with UDF on a hard disk, though I have heard of > seeing it on USB flash sticks. > > Also, UDF is optimized for devices with high seek times -- it tries very hard > to avoid fragmentation, which might actually be suboptimal on hard disks. >
On the Solaris mailing list there has been comment about poor performance as a hard disk FS. But that could be just the Solaris driver. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)