Universal Disk Format

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UDF
Developer(s) ISO/IEC, Ecma International, OSTA
Full nameUniversal Disk Format
Introduced1995;29 years ago (1995)
Partition IDs Not assigned but suggested: [1]
0x07 (MBR)
EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (GPT)
Limits
Max volume size2 TiB (with 512-byte sectors), 8 TiB (with 2 KiB sectors, like most optical discs), 16 TiB (with 4 KiB sectors) [lower-alpha 1] [2]
Max file size16 EiB
Max filename length255 bytes (path 1023 bytes [lower-alpha 2] )
Allowed filename
characters		Any 16-bit Unicode Code point excluding U+FEFF and U+FFFE
Features
Dates recordedcreation, archive, modification (mtime), attribute modification (ctime), access (atime)
Date range
24:00:00.000, 1 January 1 (UTC)  – 23:59:59.999, 31 December 9999 (UTC) [3]
Date resolution Microsecond
Forks Yes
AttributesVarious
File system
permissions 		POSIX
Transparent
compression		No
Other
Supported
operating systems 		Various

Universal Disk Format (UDF) is an open, vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660. Due to its design, it is very well suited to incremental updates on both write-once and re-writable optical media. UDF was developed and maintained by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA).

Contents

In engineering terms, Universal Disk Format is a profile of the specifications known as ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167. [4]

Usage

Normally, authoring software will master a UDF file system in a batch process and write it to optical media in a single pass. But when packet writing to rewritable media, such as CD-RW, UDF allows files to be created, deleted and changed on-disc just as a general-purpose filesystem would on removable media like floppy disks and flash drives. This is also possible on write-once media, such as CD-R, but in that case the space occupied by the deleted files cannot be reclaimed (and instead becomes inaccessible).

Multi-session mastering is also possible in UDF, though some implementations may be unable to read disks with multiple sessions. [lower-alpha 3]

History

The Optical Storage Technology Association standardized the UDF file system to form a common file system for all optical media: both for read-only media and for re-writable optical media. When first standardized, the UDF file system aimed to replace ISO 9660, allowing support for both read-only and writable media. After the release of the first version of UDF, the DVD Consortium adopted it as the official file system for DVD-Video and DVD-Audio. [5]

UDF shares the basic volume descriptor format with ISO 9660. A "UDF Bridge" format is defined since 1.50 so that a disc can also contain a ISO 9660 file system making references to files on the UDF part. [6]

Revisions

Multiple revisions of UDF have been released: [5] [7]

UDF Revisions are internally encoded as binary-coded decimals; Revision 2.60, for example, is represented as 0x0260. [13] : 23  In addition to declaring its own revision, compatibility for each volume is defined by the minimum read and minimum write revisions, each signalling the requirements for these operations to be possible for every structure on this image. A "maximum write" revision additionally records the highest UDF support level of all the implementations that has written to this image. [13] : 34  For example, a UDF 2.01 volume that does not use Stream Files (introduced in UDF 2.00) but uses VAT (UDF 1.50) created by a UDF 2.60-capable implementation may have the revision declared as 0x0201, the minimum read revision set to 0x0150, the minimum write to 0x0150, and the maximum write to 0x0260.

Specifications

The UDF standard defines three file system variations, called "builds". These are:

Plain build

Introduced in the first version of the standard, this format can be used on any type of disk that allows random read/write access, such as hard disks, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM media. Metadata (up to v2.50) and file data is addressed more or less directly. In writing to such a disk in this format, any physical block on the disk may be chosen for allocation of new or updated files.

Since this is the basic format, practically any operating system or file system driver claiming support for UDF should be able to read this format.

VAT build

Write-once media such as DVD-R and CD-R have limitations when being written to, in that each physical block can only be written to once, and the writing must happen incrementally. Thus the plain build of UDF can only be written to CD-Rs by pre-mastering the data and then writing all data in one piece to the media, similar to the way an ISO 9660 file system gets written to CD media.

To enable a CD-R to be used virtually like a hard disk, whereby the user can add and modify files on a CD-R at will (so-called "drive letter access" on Windows), OSTA added the VAT build to the UDF standard in its revision 1.5. The VAT is an additional structure on the disc that allows packet writing; that is, remapping physical blocks when files or other data on the disc are modified or deleted. For write-once media, the entire disc is virtualized, making the write-once nature transparent for the user; the disc can be treated the same way one would treat a rewritable disc.

The write-once nature of CD-R or DVD-R media means that when a file is deleted on the disc, the file's data still remains on the disc. It does not appear in the directory any more, but it still occupies the original space where it was stored. Eventually, after using this scheme for some time, the disc will be full, as free space cannot be recovered by deleting files. Special tools can be used to access the previous state of the disc (the state before the delete occurred), making recovery possible.

Not all drives fully implement version 1.5 or higher of the UDF, and some may therefore be unable to handle VAT builds.

Spared (RW) build

Rewriteable media such as DVD-RW and CD-RW have fewer limitations than DVD-R and CD-R media. Sectors can be rewritten at random (though in packets at a time). These media can be erased entirely at any time, making the disc blank again, ready for writing a new UDF or other file system (e.g., ISO 9660 or CD Audio) to it. However, sectors of -RW media may "wear out" after a while, meaning that their data becomes unreliable, through having been rewritten too often (typically after a few hundred rewrites, with CD-RW).

The plain and VAT builds of the UDF format can be used on rewriteable media, with some limitations. If the plain build is used on a -RW media, file-system level modification of the data must not be allowed, as this would quickly wear out often-used sectors on the disc (such as those for directory and block allocation data), which would then go unnoticed and lead to data loss. To allow modification of files on the disc, rewriteable discs can be used like -R media using the VAT build. This ensures that all blocks get written only once (successively), ensuring that there are no blocks that get rewritten more often than others. This way, a RW disc can be erased and reused many times before it should become unreliable. However, it will eventually become unreliable with no easy way of detecting it. When using the VAT build, CD-RW/DVD-RW media effectively appears as CD-R or DVD+/-R media to the computer. However, the media may be erased again at any time.

The spared build was added in revision 1.5 to address the particularities of rewriteable media. This build adds an extra Sparing Table in order to manage the defects that will eventually occur on parts of the disc that have been rewritten too many times. This table keeps track of worn-out sectors and remaps them to working ones. UDF defect management does not apply to systems that already implement another form of defect management, such as Mount Rainier (MRW) for optical discs, or a disk controller for a hard drive.

The tools and drives that do not fully support revision 1.5 of UDF will ignore the sparing table, which would lead them to read the outdated worn-out sectors, leading to retrieval of corrupted data.

An overhead that is spread over the entire disc reserves a portion of the data storage space, limiting the usable capacity of a CD-RW with e.g. 650 MB of original capacity to around 500 MB. [14]

Character set

The UDF specifications [5] allow only one Character Set OSTA CS0, which can store any Unicode Code point excluding U+FEFF and U+FFFE. Additional character sets defined in ECMA-167 are not used. [4] : 7.2 

Since Errata DCN-5157, the range of code points was expanded to all code points from Unicode 4.0 (or any newer or older version), which includes Plane 1-16 characters such as Emoji. DCN-5157 also recommends normalizing the strings to Normalization Form C. [15]

The OSTA CS0 character set stores a 16-bit Unicode string "compressed" into 8-bit or 16-bit units, preceded by a single-byte "compID" tag to indicate the compression type. The 8-bit storage is functionally equivalent to ISO-8859-1, and the 16-bit storage is UTF-16 in big endian. 8-bit-per-character file names save space because they only require half the space per character, so they should be used if the file name contains no special characters that can not be represented with 8 bits only. [16]

The reference algorithm neither checks for forbidden code points nor interprets surrogate pairs, so like NTFS the string may be malformed. [5] : 2.1.2, 6.4  (No specific form of storage is specified by DCN-5157, but UTF-16BE is the only well-known method for storing all of Unicode while being mostly backward compatible with UCS-2.) [15]

Compatibility

Many DVD players do not support any UDF revision other than version 1.02. Discs created with a newer revision may still work in these players if the ISO 9660 bridge format is used. Even if an operating system claims to be able to read UDF 1.50, it still may only support the plain build and not necessarily either the VAT or Spared UDF builds.

Mac OS X 10.4.5 claims to support Revision 1.50 (see man mount_udf), yet it can only mount disks of the plain build properly and provides no virtualization support at all. It cannot mount UDF disks with VAT, as seen with the Sony Mavica issue. [17] [18] Releases before 10.4.11 mount disks with Sparing Table but does not read its files correctly. Version 10.4.11 fixes this problem. [19] [20]

Similarly, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) cannot read DVD-RW discs that use the UDF 2.00 sparing tables as a defect management system. [21] This problem occurs if the UDF defect management system creates a sparing table that spans more than one sector on the DVD-RW disc. Windows XP SP2 can recognize that a DVD is using UDF, but Windows Explorer displays the contents of a DVD as an empty folder. A hotfix is available for this [22] and is included in Service Pack 3. [21]

Due to the default UDF versions and options, a UDF partition formatted by Windows cannot be written under macOS. On the other hand, a partition formatted by macOS cannot be directly written by Windows, due to the requirement of a MBR partition table. In addition, Linux only supports writing to UDF 2.01. A script for Linux and macOS called format-udf handles these incompatibilities by using UDF 2.01 and adding a fake MBR; [23] for Windows the best solution is using the command-line tool format /FS:UDF /R:2.01.

Table of operating systems
  • Unless otherwise noted, read and write support means that only the plain UDF build is supported, but not the VAT and spared build.
  • Support for "read" means that a UDF formatted disk can be mounted by the system. It enables the user to read files from the UDF volume using the same interface that is used to access files on other disks connected to the computer.
  • Support for "write" means that, in addition to reading files from a mounted UDF volume, data such as files can be modified, added, or deleted.
UDF revision (read + write)Non-plain
Operating system1.021.502.0x2.502.60VATSparing tablesNote
AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1YesYesNoNo1.5 is default [24]
AmigaOS 4.0YesYes
BeOS/magnussoft ZETA/Haiku YesYesYesYesYes
OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS)YesAdditional fee drivers on OS/2.
FreeBSD 5.0 and newerread onlyread only [25] NoNoNoNoYes
Linux kernel 2.2NoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Linux kernel 2.4YesYesYes [lower-alpha 5] NoNoYesYes
Linux kernel 2.6.0–2.6.25YesYesYesNoNoYesYesKernel versions prior to 2.6.10 supported fewer media types.
Linux kernel 2.6.26 and newerYesYesYesread only [26] read only [13] : 10 YesYesPermission-related mounting options added in 2.6.30. [27] Auto-detection of UDF file system on hard disk is supported since version 2.6.30. Auto-detection of UDF file system on disk images was fixed in 4.11.
Mac OS 8.1–8.5 YesNoNoNoNoNoNoSome earlier versions of Mac OS, such as 7.5, 7.6, and 8.0 are also supported via third-party utilities, along with additional UDF version support for 8.1 and 8.5. [lower-alpha 6]
Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9 YesYesNoNoNoNoNoAdditional UDF version support via third-party utilities. [lower-alpha 6]
Mac OS X 10.0–10.3YesYes [28] No [28] NoNoNoNo
Mac OS X 10.4YesYesYesNo [lower-alpha 7] [29] No [lower-alpha 8] NoYes [lower-alpha 9] Can create UDF 1.50 (plain build) volumes using the drutil utility.
Mac OS X 10.5 and newerYesYesYesYes [30] [29] read only [30] [31] YesYesTo create, use newfs_udf utility.
NetBSD 4.0read only [32] read onlyread onlyread onlyread onlyYesYesReading multi-session VAT, spared and metapartition variants
from all CD, DVD and BD variants as well as HDD and Flash media.
NetBSD 5.0YesYesYesYesYesYesYesWrite support for all builds and media including multi-session VAT. [33] Create new with newfs_udf.
Limited writing on 2.50/2.60 (due to needing pre-allocated, fixed sized metadata partition). [34]
NetWare 5.1
NetWare 6
OpenBSD 3.8–3.9read only [35] NoNoNoNoNoNo
OpenBSD 4.0–4.6read onlyread only [36] NoNoNoYes [36] No
OpenBSD 4.7read onlyread onlyread onlyread only [37] read only [37] YesYes
Solaris 7 11/99+YesYes
Solaris 8/9/10YesYes
DOS, FreeDOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2+ and other DOS based OSNo [38] NoNoNoNoNoNoNo native support. Filesystems that have an ISO9660 backward compatibility structure can be read.
Windows 98, Windows Me read only and only for CD/DVD optical disks [39] [40] [41] [38] NoNoNoNoNoNoAdditional read/write support via third party utilities [lower-alpha 10]
Windows 2000 read only [41] [42] [43] [44] [38] read onlyNoNoNoNoNoAdditional read/write support via third party utilities [lower-alpha 10]
Windows XP/Server 2003 read only [43] [44] [38] read onlyread onlyNoNoYesYes [lower-alpha 11] Additional read/write support via third party utilities [lower-alpha 10]
Windows Vista Yes [45] [46] [44] [38] YesYesYesread only [45] [46] [44] [38] YesYesReferred to by Microsoft as Live File System. Requires fake MBR partition on non-optical devices.
Windows 7 and newerYes [38] YesYesYesYesYesYes
Operating system1.021.502.0x2.502.60VATSparing tablesNote
UDF revision (read + write)Non-plain

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 232 × block size
  2. ↑ This restriction might be lifted in newer versions.
  3. ↑ Multi-session mastering has always been part of the UDF specification. See [UDF 2.01/6.10.1], though earlier documents were not very clear that the anchor offsets are specified to be from the last session.
  4. 1 2 Mentioned only in history of Revision 1.02.
  5. ↑ Linux version 2.3.17–2.4.5 supports only UDF revision up to 2.00, Linux version 2.4.6 and newer supports also UDF revision 2.01.
  6. 1 2 Read and (depending on which utility is used) write support for UDF versions 1.02, 1.50, 2.00, and 2.01 (support for 1.50 is not natively present in 8.1 or 8.5, and 2.00 onwards was not supported by the classic Mac OS at all) on optical disks available with third party utilities such as Adaptec's UDF Volume Access or Software Architects' DVD-RAM Tune-Up utilities.
  7. ↑ Support via third party utility Toast 9+ HD Plugin
  8. ↑ Support via third party utility Toast 9+
  9. ↑ Since version 10.4.11
  10. 1 2 3 Read and write support for other UDF versions on optical disks available with third party utilities such as DLA, InCD or Toshiba/Panasonic/Matsushita UDF 2.5 driver. Read and write support for removable disks and hard disks available with third party utilities such as SAI's WriteUDF!.
  11. ↑ Service Pack 3 required

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  44. 1 2 3 4 "2.3 About the UDF File System" (doc). Local File Systems for Windows (Report). Microsoft Corporation. 5 May 2004. pp. 6–8. WinHEC 2004 Version.
  45. 1 2 Russinovich, M. E.; Solomon, D. A.; Ionescu, A. (2009). "Chapter 12 - File Systems". Windows Internals, 5th Edition: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (5th ed.). Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. p. 981. ISBN   978-0-7356-3796-2. The UDF driver supports UDF versions up to 2.60. The Windows UDF driver (Udfs.sys) provides read-write support ... when using UDF 2.50 and read-only support when using UDF 2.60. However, Windows does not implement support for certain UDF features such as named streams and access control lists.
  46. 1 2 Russinovich, M. E.; Solomon, D. A.; Ionescu, A. (2012). "Chapter 12 - File Systems". Windows Internals, Part 2, 6th Edition: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6th ed.). Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. p. 393. ISBN   978-0-7356-6587-3. The UDF driver supports UDF versions up to 2.60. The Windows UDF driver (Udfs.sys) provides read-write support ... when using UDF 2.50 and read-only support when using UDF 2.60. However, Windows does not implement support for certain UDF features such as named streams and access control lists.

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