Re: support of Universal Disc Format (UDF)?

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:30:51 +0200


On Jun 7, Lawrence Chim wrote:

> Does Linux support the new Universal Disc Format (UDF)?

what's the big advantage of UDF compared to ISO9660 + RockRidge ?
RR is supported by *many* systems...

> ISO9660 have several limitations:
> File names must be only in capital letters , A - Z.

+ digits

> File names are limited to the DOS 8 + 3 format.

nope. ISO9660 says 32+32, but due to MickeySoft's broken program loaders
many things will break if you don't limit yourself to 8+3...

> No more than 8 directory levels.

yep, rr_moved is a cludge (but it works;)

Harald

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