Posted May 5, 2009 13:05 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
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Not to mention that it doesn't solve the problem of using J. Random Person's USB stick that's handed to you and that you otherwise don't control. I can't imagine a dialog saying "This device has an incompatible filesystem format. Convert to UDF? [Y] [N]" going over particularly well.
Long discussions about long names
Posted May 5, 2009 13:28 UTC (Tue) by bfeeney (guest, #6855)
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Ah, I just had a look on Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format#Native...), and
I think the reason I could write under Windows XP was because Dell had
installed SonicDLA, which adds write-support to Windows XP machines.
MacOS 10.5 and Windows Vista both have write-support, which is encouraging,
but with Windows XP read-only by default, UDF won't be a viable alternative
for another two or three years.