[ On Sunday, March 26, Julian Elischer wrote: ]
> 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)
>
cool!
> 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.
if it was easy to read, it couldn't be called a "standard" though ;-)
> (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)
Right ... I was originally searching for info on this topic because my wife got
a CD-R from her relatives that was supposed to have billions of scanned family
pictures on it. Unfortunately the person writing the CD-R used "DirectCD" from
adaptec which uses UDF and packet writing, rather than burning an ISO9660
filesystem the "traditional" way. Thus, I was not able to "see" the contents
under FreeBSD. It just got me curious.
Your code will not go un-appreciated!
Thanks for the more-up-to-date info,
-Jr
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