# ISO/IEC 20919:2016 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO/IEC 20919:2016, item title is Information technology — Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Format Specification; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 20919:2021; withdrawn / published date is 2016-03-29, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 20919:2016 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Information technology — Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Format Specification _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO/IEC 20919:2021 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2016-03-29 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 69458,IS,,ISO/IEC 20919:2016,Information technology — Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Format Specification,Technologies de l'information — Spécification du format de système de fichier à bande magnétique,2016-03-29,1,['35.220.20'],ISO/IEC JTC 1,9599,,[80598],['en'],69,"

ISO/IEC 20919:2016 defines the LTFS Format requirements for interchanged media that claims LTFS compliance. Those requirements are specified as the size and sequence of data blocks and file marks on the media, the content and form of special data constructs (the LTFS Label and LTFS Index), and the content of the partition labels and use of MAM parameters.

The data content (not the physical media) of the LTFS format sha ## Source - https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01. Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).