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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format ? That looked hopeful last I was juggling with this sor
by regularfry 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format ? That looked hopeful last I was juggling with this sort of thing, but that was long enough ago that WinXP support was the killer.
- duskwuff 10y agoFrom what I understand, UDF is primarily targeted at one-time-recordable media. (It's used in DVDs, for example.) It's unclear how well it works for primary storage, but I suspect it's clumsy at best.
- regularfry 10y agoIt's only got to beat FAT. That's a pretty low bar.
- setpatchaddress 10y agoOne that it doesn't meet. Try to read and understand the UDF spec sometime.
- Sanddancer 10y agoGetting UDF to work with rewritable media, like usb sticks, is an unholy pain in the arse. It involves trying to remember an arcane combination of versions and feature flags to get the universal format to actually be universal. I managed it once, but after that, realized that the network was fast enough for most of what I needed and I tend to not have the four gig files that cause problems with FAT filesystems.