Re: [tlug] CD-UDF on Linux (RH8)

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

I would also be interested in knowing any updated information about
this.  From what I read the problem was with the lack of support for
packeted writting to ATA drives.  I did not have any problems reading
UDF drives so that is probably something else.
> > When I attempted to write, the message was the drive was read-only. I set
> > the permissions for writing, but this had no effect.
> Dangerous or not, it should be discouraged. When you "format" a CD in packet
> mode you start by losing about 100 megs of capacity. Secondly, no Windows
> user can read the CD without appropriate software.
UDF is used on DVD's so I suspect anyone with a DVD player will have no
problems, but as I have not had any problems running UDF disks under
windows 2000 I can't really confirm this.
> Finally, if you can burn
> multisession CD-R's there really is no need for UDF-write support.
>From what I understand you lose about 30 meg writting the Table of
Contents every time you finish a session on multisession CD (not exactly
sure on the size).  This is ok if you want to copy several hundred meg
at a time but not if you just want to back up a few files at a time or
use the disk like a large floppy disk.
-- 
Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>