Dear Katata-san,

My understanding is that you claimed at this week’s Mt Fuji meeting that Vista’s Live file system will issue write commands to write-once and rewritable discs even if the content is only played back, due to update of access time file properties. Thus you felt the necessity for the Mt Fuji – MMC standardized devices to workaround a mix of read and writes even for playback applications.

I have discussed with the development lead for Vista Live file system. He confirmed that we not update the access time on the files. This is disabled by default. If you observe such issue, something else is probably going on, shell creating desktop.ini files etc. Ravinder has not seen this for a long time now, Vista Live file system seems pretty stable. Please provide particular scenarios and steps taken to reproduce this if you still observe such issue so Ravinder’s team can investigate and fix the problem.

Accordingly, the standard definition shall not be changed and work on future standard does not need to workaround an hypothetical operating system implementation problem.

Best regards,

David Burg.