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ISO/IEC 13490 (also known as ECMA
Ecma International

'Ecma International' is an international, private non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association changed its name to reflect the organization's international reach....
-168) is the next version of ISO 9660
ISO 9660

ISO 9660, also called CDFS by some manufacturers, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , defines a file system for CD-ROM media....
 (level 3), intended to describe the file system
File system

In computing, a file system is a method for store and organize computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them....
 of a CD-ROM
CD-ROM

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains Computer data storage accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of Binary file....
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ISO 13490 has several improvements over its predecessor. It fully addresses the filename, POSIX
POSIX

POSIX or "Portable Operating System Interface" is the collective name of a family of related standardizations specified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to define the application programming interface , along with shell and utilities interfaces for software compatible with variants of the Unix operating system, altho...
 attribute, and multibyte character issues that were not handled by ISO 9660. It is also a more efficient format, permits incremental recording, and permits both the ISO 9660 format and ISO/IEC 13490 format to co-exist on the same media.






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ISO/IEC 13490 (also known as ECMA
Ecma International

'Ecma International' is an international, private non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association changed its name to reflect the organization's international reach....
-168) is the next version of ISO 9660
ISO 9660

ISO 9660, also called CDFS by some manufacturers, a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , defines a file system for CD-ROM media....
 (level 3), intended to describe the file system
File system

In computing, a file system is a method for store and organize computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them....
 of a CD-ROM
CD-ROM

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains Computer data storage accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of Binary file....
.

ISO 13490 has several improvements over its predecessor. It fully addresses the filename, POSIX
POSIX

POSIX or "Portable Operating System Interface" is the collective name of a family of related standardizations specified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to define the application programming interface , along with shell and utilities interfaces for software compatible with variants of the Unix operating system, altho...
 attribute, and multibyte character issues that were not handled by ISO 9660. It is also a more efficient format, permits incremental recording, and permits both the ISO 9660 format and ISO/IEC 13490 format to co-exist on the same media. It also specifies how to use multisession properly.

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  • UDF
    Universal Disk Format

    The Universal Disk Format is a format specification of a file system for storing files on Optical disc. It is an implementation of the ISO/IEC 13346 standard ....
     based on ISO/IEC 13346 (also known as ECMA
    Ecma International

    'Ecma International' is an international, private non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association changed its name to reflect the organization's international reach....
    -167    )