[ale] Reading UDF DVD created on Vista

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> I have a data DVD created on Windows Vista.  I can't read it.  Googling
> shows me that Vista burns disks using some unusual variation of UDF which
> Linux can't read without a kernel patch.
>
> Is there *any* way I can read such a disk without applying a kernel patch?

If you're talking about UDF 2.6, you can wait for the 2.6.26 kernel.
(4-6 weeks away?)

Otherwise, not that I know of, but if you want to search: look for a
userspace filesystem that will support it.

Those use the fuser kernel module which should already be in your
distro kernel.  (Definitely in the recent SUSE kernels.)

BTW: Is there a way to get vanilla Vista to create older UDF versions?
 2.6 is not really new from a spec. perspective, but it seems Linux is
just getting around to supporting it and per the Wikipedia article I
just looked at Vista can only read it.  I assume a recent patchset
enabled write capability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

Greg
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