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

[Roberto Piscitello]

Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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
> 

A spec was written some time ago by Phillip Susi: see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PacketCD.
It is not clear, however, how much of that has been accomplished.

Ciao,
  robepisc