How to format DVD-R with equivalent of Windows "Live File System"?

From what I gather, the main feature of Windows "Live File System" is not a Windows thing, but actually a feature of UDF revision 1.50 (1997). It added support for the "Virtual Allocation Table" (VAT), which allowed packet writing; that is, you can sort of treat the CD-R/DVD-R, which are WORM (Write Once, Read Many) as a rewriteable filesystem (not disc, filesystem).

Given this apparent generality, I imagine Linux does support this. However, I only found this, but it seems weird, since I found no udftools service nor the file where it says to be present. And I also suspect pktsetup (of Debian package udftools) has something to do with this, although I do not get its language nor explanation.

So! How do I do this?

How to format DVD-R with equivalent of Windows "Live File System"?

It is called "muti-session". It is intended to burn to a CD/DVD in sessions before finalizing what is written. I

K3B supports it: when you press "Burn". Tab "Misc" has a option for "multisession mode".

Command line using growisofs:

growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -R -J .
growisofs -M /dev/sr0 -R -J .
growisofs -M /dev/sro=/dev/zero

• important note in the man page: Make sure to use the same options for both initial burning and when appending data.
• 3rd line is the one to finalize the write.
• /dev/sr0 is the device
• -Z starts a new session on a blank disc.
• -M appends to an existing session.
• -R and -J enables "Rocky Ridge" and "Joilet" extensions (so you can use more the 8 letters for filenames).