Long discussions about long names

Posted May 5, 2009 9:56 UTC (Tue) by bangert (subscriber, #28342)
In reply to: Long discussions about long names by bfeeney
Parent article: Long discussions about long names

have you tried it?

because it doesnt have write support on windows XP, MacOSX 10.4 and linux eats your disk, when
try to put more bytes on it than are available.

vfat sucks - but UDF isn't close to be a solution.

Long discussions about long names

Posted May 5, 2009 13:28 UTC (Tue) by bfeeney (guest, #6855) [Link]

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.