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Is there a UDF filesystem driver for DOS? (Users)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 13.06.2013, 02:55

> > Why not format DVD-RAM as FAT32 instead of UDF? At least some versions
> of
> > Windows will let you do that. For strictly computer use (not trying to
> > load into a DVD player or something) I think FAT32 makes more sense than
> > UDF.
>
> I know that it can be formatted to FAT32 but it's very unoptimized to work
> on DVD RAM and it's not recomended. Esp. writting many small files is pain.
> And it doesn't solve problem of reading dvd-ram recorded on another machine
> (e.g. dvd recorder)
IIRC, FAT32 has a filesize limit of 4 gigabytes.

So, even formatting a DVD-RAM as FAT32 would still have the stumbling
block that was in the orginal post which we need UDF capacity to get past.

Namely... having full access in DOS to files over 4 gigabytes
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