Re: UDF (DVD fs)
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Julian Elischer wrote: I am working on UDF support. I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. I will eventually turn this into a (readonly) filesystem, and it is designed with that in mind (it uses a buffer cache etc, like the kernel. (in other words I'm prototyping). I will at some stage also try make a UDF creation module for mkisofs as well. Uhm, the real value of UDF is that it can be used as a "real" rw filesystem on CDRW/DVDRAM media, if this is not implemented the value of having UDF is very limited IMHO Another value of UDF is interoperability with the redmond virii which don't recognize 2.2 GB 9660 file systems. I have to duplicate 4.x GB of mpeg2 files onto 30+ copies of DVD-ram, and being able to do it as UDF instead of having to format UDF on an NT box and copying the files before duping a disk image would save me at least one headache:) --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UDF (DVD fs)
It seems Coleman Kane wrote: Hello, is anyone currently working on code to implement the UDF filesystem? For those not familiar with it, it is the filesystem that DVDs use. I'd like to look into getting the support under FreeBSD, since the players already seem to work. If no one is working on this, then I could probably use some help in writing the code to support this fs. I think Julian Elischer is working on UDF.. However to play/read/use DVD's you dont need UDF, they are also readable as an ISO9660, but that might change in the future... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UDF (DVD fs)
I am working on UDF support. I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. I will eventually turn this into a (readonly) filesystem, and it is designed with that in mind (it uses a buffer cache etc, like the kernel. (in other words I'm prototyping). I will at some stage also try make a UDF creation module for mkisofs as well. In the meanwhile you should be able to mount most modern DVDs using the ISO9660 filesystem as they should be "bridge" format, (in which there is metadata for both types of filesystems). Julian Coleman Kane wrote: Hello, is anyone currently working on code to implement the UDF filesystem? For those not familiar with it, it is the filesystem that DVDs use. I'd like to look into getting the support under FreeBSD, since the players already seem to work. If no one is working on this, then I could probably use some help in writing the code to support this fs. -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu --- Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 )_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UDF (DVD fs)
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: I am working on UDF support. I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. I will eventually turn this into a (readonly) filesystem, and it is designed with that in mind (it uses a buffer cache etc, like the kernel. (in other words I'm prototyping). I will at some stage also try make a UDF creation module for mkisofs as well. Uhm, the real value of UDF is that it can be used as a "real" rw filesystem on CDRW/DVDRAM media, if this is not implemented the value of having UDF is very limited IMHO In the meanwhile you should be able to mount most modern DVDs using the ISO9660 filesystem as they should be "bridge" format, (in which there is metadata for both types of filesystems). Endeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UDF (DVD fs)
Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Julian Elischer wrote: Indeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :) I will be adding read/write later.. One must be able to walk before running! As for RO UDF, it is useful for reading UDF2.0.1 cds that don't have ISO9660 on them (I have one here). The experience of looking at how the other vendors do read/write (especially adaptec) in order to be able to read their disks will be used to make it writable. -Søren -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 )_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: UDF (DVD fs)
Soren Schmidt had the audacity to say: Uhm, the real value of UDF is that it can be used as a "real" rw filesystem on CDRW/DVDRAM media, if this is not implemented the value of having UDF is very limited IMHO Not necessarily, since the cd9660 backward compatibility is not a requirement of the standard. I have Pulp Fiction here, and it doesn't work, because it has no 9660 compatibility. In the meanwhile you should be able to mount most modern DVDs using the ISO9660 filesystem as they should be "bridge" format, (in which there is metadata for both types of filesystems). Endeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :) -Søren -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
