UDF Filesystem as replacement to FAT*, ISO9660, and other Filesystems.

[Toby Smithe]

You need to:
a) Write a spec. It's pretty much too late for Feisty.
b) Here and in that spec, tell us the benefits udf has over, say, ext3.

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 18:33 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 11/12/06, Florian Zeitz <Florian.Zeitz at gmx.de> wrote:
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>         Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
>         > UDF stands for "Universal Disk Format", An implimentation of
>         ISO/IEC
>         > 13346, and also known as ECMA-167 that is originally
>         specified for 
>         > DVD. UDF provides compatibility across different operating
>         systems,
>         > and because of that,  it's quickly becoming the new
>         international
>         > standard format for all types of data storage,
>         >
>         > UDF will be increasingly useful in the upcomming years,
>         notably, the 
>         > release of Blu-Ray Holographic Disk will use UDF, and it's
>         > accessibility is available on Windows Vista for both read
>         +write
>         > access, this ensures total compatibility across other
>         operating
>         > system, since Linux 2.6 support read+write already.
>         >
>         > I'm wondering, will UDF be a part of Feisty? I just hope the
>         use of
>         > this format will have a +10 high priority points in this
>         release..
>         >
>         > Regards,
>         > Joel 
>         >
>         
>         As you say yourself Linux 2.6 already has read and write
>         support for
>         UDF. Ubuntu uses a Linux 2.6 kernel, so it has UDF support,
>         thus UDF is
>         "a part of" Ubuntu since the beginning as far as I remember. 
>         What else would you want?
> 
> I'm suggesting the integration of the desktop to easily create and
> make use of the filesystem, because it's possible for a floppy disk to
> be formatted with UDF, as well as HD and Flash Disks, Currently,
> udftools must be grabbed from the repository to be able to create udf
> filesystems, and mounting a UDF disk must require root priviledges to
> gain read+write permissions. The technology is not yet totally
> accessible for the users, 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Joel
> 
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