Sunday, September 06, 2020

Re: [pkg-readme update] sysutils/udfclient

diff --git a/sysutils/udfclient/Makefile b/sysutils/udfclient/Makefile
index 7dc63d78d72..5a268222e62 100644
--- a/sysutils/udfclient/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/udfclient/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
COMMENT = userland implementation of the UDF filesystem

V = 0.8.11
+REVISION= 0
DISTNAME = UDFclient.${V}
PKGNAME = udfclient-${V}
CATEGORIES = sysutils
diff --git a/sysutils/udfclient/pkg/README b/sysutils/udfclient/pkg/README
index caa00e7de1e..410d4606cc6 100644
--- a/sysutils/udfclient/pkg/README
+++ b/sysutils/udfclient/pkg/README
@@ -31,12 +31,15 @@ Special files and links
UDF on disk drives
------------------

-Disklabels are not used, except for virtual partition "a" with
-2048-byte blocksize devices. MBRs are not used, the filesystem
-begins at LBA 0. Partition "c" should be used if writing directly
-to a drive instead of an image file. If the drive contains prior
-data, zero the leading sectors before use as shown in the first
-command below.
+OpenBSD disklabels are not used on storage media. OpenBSD will create
+an in-memory virtual "a" partition when natively mounting UDF filesystems
+read-only on 2048-byte block devices or images; see Interoperability with
+mount_udf(8) below.
+
+MBRs are not used, the filesystem begins at LBA 0. Raw partition "c"
+should be used if writing directly to a drive instead of an image file.
+If the drive contains prior data, zero the leading sectors before use as
+shown in the first command below.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd9c count=63
# newfs_udf -L shared.drive /dev/rsd9c
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 06:06:40PM -0400, Josh Grosse wrote:
> This diff clarifies when a virtual "a" partition may be
> used with udfclient images.
>
> Thanks to Jens A. Griepen for bringing the matter to my
> attention.

Corrected thinko in Makefile.

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