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This article is from the storage FAQ part1, by Rodney D. Van Meter with numerous contributions by others.

6.2.2 WORM

    Write-Once-Read-Many
Standards are less firm between vendors.

For info on file systems for WORM, see the reference to ISO/IEC 13346
in http://www.mv.com/users/kaikow/.  Also check out the OSTA (Optical
Storage Technology Association) specs for UDF (Universal Disk Format).
UDF is one of the file systems that will be used with DVD.
(from kaikow@standards.com and david@microdes.com, 1996/3/20)
    

 

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