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by somat 1048 days ago
The sgi irix cd's were in their EFS filesystem. It made reading sgi disks on other systems a bit of a challenge.

At one time I was tempted into putting a UFS(the dvd filesystem) format on a flash drive, the theory was it would be a better filesystem than FAT and be readable in any OS. The problem was nobody ever implamented write routines for their UFS implementation, they were all read only. Sort of understandable as the key driver of UFS was a read only medium(the dvd). but it dashed my dreams of using it as a cross platform filesystem.

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Makes me wonder what format DVDRs will see. (yes, I vaguely remember the hell of +R and -R)