[Fedora-livecd-list] Storing the image as UDF not IS9660

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Feb 20 17:59:34 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:16 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Meanwhile, as I understand things, UDF is the normal filesystem for DVDs, 
> is pretty widely-supported, and supports 255-character-long paths, perhaps 
> longer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems>.  It 
> would even work for CDs; it's not as if you'd have to stop supporting 
> generating CDs.  Right now, you generate DVDs as large CDs; using UDF 
> would let you generate CDs as if they were small DVDs.  (Both work on 
> most OSs, and besides, You would just switch to
> 
> Have you guys thought about making livecd-creator output UDF-format 
> filesystems rather than the limited ISO9660?

ISO9660 is still a lot more standard and common.  Are there even any
apps yet that will generate UTF instead?

Jeremy




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