[Fedora-livecd-list] UDF filesystem for the ISO image?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 17:17:58 +0100,
  Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   This following might be naive - thanks in advance to just tell me if
> it is.
> 
> I used to "convert the ISO image to a USB image using
> livecd-iso-to-disk. After upgrading to Fedora 13, I thought at first
> that this conversion could now be avoided since the ISO image can now
> also be used on USB. But there is a caveat: the filesystem being
> read-only ISO9660, it is not possible to write on such a USB stick
> (whereas my previous conversion technique allows that).
> 
> Now here is the crazy idea: would it be feasible to get the best of
> both worlds by switching to a read-write filesystem like UDF for
> instance?

The os image is imbedded in a squashfs image so you are still stuff with
read only for that part.

UDF actually gets used for images over 4 GiB instead of iso8660.