On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:12:25PM -0500, Ian Turner wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 12:31, you wrote:
> > Does UDF support a modern permissions system though? I thought it
> > didn't, because it was designed for optical media...
>
> Yes. It is designed to be a superset of all common filesystems, feature-wise.
> So it has support for NT ACLs, POSIX ACLs, UNIX permissions, Apple file types
> and resource forks, etc.
>
> I dunno if Windows is OK with UDF on a hard disk, though I have heard of
> seeing it on USB flash sticks.
>
> Also, UDF is optimized for devices with high seek times -- it tries very hard
> to avoid fragmentation, which might actually be suboptimal on hard disks.
>
On the Solaris mailing list there has been comment about poor performance
as a hard disk FS. But that could be just the Solaris driver.
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