Universal Disk Format File System

The Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system, the industry-standard format for storing information on optical media technology, is supported in this Solaris release. The UDF file system can be used to exchange data on the following components when they contain a UDF file system:

• CD-ROMs

• Disks and diskettes

• Digital versatile disc or digital video disc (DVD) -- DVD-ROM on supported platforms

The UDF file system is provided as dynamically loadable, 32-bit and 64-bit modules, and contains system administration utilities for creating, mounting, and checking the file system on both SPARC and IA platforms.

When a UDF file system is mounted, users can read, write, or list files from the device, and applications can access UDF file and directories with standard system calls.

See the System Administration Guide, Volume 1 and the man page mount_udfs(1M) for more information.

This feature was first available in the Solaris 7 11/99 release.