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Changes in 2.0

  • For UDF uuid is used same algorithm as in util-linux v2.30
  • Fixed Unicode encode/decode functions to correctly process OSTA Unicode d-string and d-characters
  • Corrections and updates in man pages, mkudffs now contains lot of compatibility information
  • New tool udfinfo which shows various information about UDF (incuding label, uuid, free space)
  • New tool udflabel which shows or changes UDF label or UDF uuid
  • cdrwtool:
    • Set default UDF revision to 1.50
  • pktsetup:
    • Make dev_name argument for setup optional
    • Allow to setup and remove optical device by major:minor numbers
    • Include udev rule file for automatic managing of packet writing devices
  • mkudffs:
    • Fixed support for VAT and CD-R disks
    • Fixed crashes and infinite loops on disks with small number of sectors
    • Allow 128 (resp. 63) characters in --label option
    • Allow to enable VAT via new --vat option for any disk type
    • Allow to enable Sparing Table via --spartable option also for any disk type
    • Allow to specify number of entries in Sparing Table via new --sparspace option
    • Added support for UDF revision 2.50 and 2.60 for disc with VAT (e.g. Blu-Ray Disc Recordable)
    • Added support for CD-ROM, DVD-R and BD-R discs
    • Added new option --new-file for enforcing to create a new image file
    • Added new option --mode for specifying permissions of root directory
    • Added new option --bootarea=preserve|erase|mbr to specify what to do with first 32kB of disk
      --bootarea=mbr put MBR with one partition which starts at sector 0 and spans whole disk device (compatibility for MS Windows)
    • Added new option --locale for specifying that command line arguments are encoded according to current locale and make it default
    • Added support for disks which have logical sector size 8192, 16384 or 32768 bytes
    • For hard disk set fallback block size to 512 bytes (default is still logical sector size of block device)
    • Check that block device is not mounted before format process starts
    • Optimize splitting disk space to maximize available free space for data
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