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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
This sounds like an interesting idea. I haven't worked much with UDF so I'm not aware of any pitfalls - except for this possible one: Is UDF any good as a read/write filesystem? Usually an UDF filesystem is prepared all at once, then burned to media. I guess even for rewritable DVDs you don't really update files indivdually at an inode level.. or do you?
Actually, DVD-RAM is UDF, and they are writable at the sector level. I've ran UDF filesystems on regular Linux boxes, and I haven't ran into any major performance headaches.

My main concern is, how good does UDF read/write work with other OSs. I've only used them with DVD-Ram on Windows.