Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:10:32 -0500 | Subject | Re: isofs maintainer and write support | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:28:58PM +0100, xerces8 wrote: > I write here as the MAINTAINERS file has no entry about the isofs. > > The question is : Is there any plan/way/idea to have read/write support > for isofs ? > > I know of user space tools that can perform any operation (like > create/read/write/rename/delete file/directory) but that is nowhere > as convenient as a real filesystem. > > Use case: Editing a iso9660 filesystem on a DVD+RW. With a r/w isofs most > changes would take a few seconds, while without, the entire 4.5 gigabytes > must be copied to HD, edited and then remastered back to the DVD medium. > (Why I don't use another FS ? Because I use the DVD to store music for > my car cd/dvd player and it understands only iso9660.) > (neither does it know vorbis. Or aac+ :-( )
I find it hard to believe any device that can read a DVD doesn't support UDF. That would be a very dumb design choice.
UDF was designed for read/write use. iso9660 was very much designed for read only. It is much more complex to update an iso9660 filesystem after it is created. It just wasn't meant for it.
-- Len Sorensen
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