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The initrd of the Debian installer currently support FAT, ISO 9660 and Ext2/3 and ReiserFS for loading stuff, for instance when using hd-media (to find udebs) or netboot (to find firmwares for one's f..king NIC). These filesystems each have its drawbacks, for instance: * FAT lacks many features, such as symlinks and large files; * ISO 9660 is read-only; * Ext2/3 and ReiserFS are not supported by most foreign OSes. There is one interesting filesystem out there that is quite interesting for portable media: UDF, the universal disk format, mostly known for being the standard DVD filesystem. Its most interesting features are: * being supported by almost every OS for being the standard DVD FS; * being usable in read-write mode; * having any features one could expect in a correct file system, such as symlinks and permissions; * having some extra features such as “anonymous” file ownership (cf. Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt), useful for removable media. I think it would be useful to add support for this UDF filesystem, as it would allow to build USB and optical disk images usable: * in read-write mode; * with correct features (for instance a symlink background.png -> spacefun.png, a large file debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso); * with foreign OSes (for instance to modify a preseed file). Regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:tan...@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Elessar> | `-' Debian Maintainer \_
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