stan  writes:
> I'm trying to decide what filesystem to use on a USB drive. I'd like to be

quoted text
> able to access the unit from OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and perhaps Windows.

Once Windows is in the picture, you will need to go with a Microsoft

file system.  Most of these drives anyway come preformatted as FAT32,

so it's quite possible you don't even have to make an active choice.
On the other hand, on some units long filenames ended up with MS-DOS

style 8.3 file names until I recreated the file system on them (newfs

-t msdos).  Fortunately my new 4GB unit did not have that problem.
--

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