On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 20:51 -0400, stan wrote:

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

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

>

> What is the intersection of the sets of filesystems supported by these

> various OS's?

There do exist ext2fs drivers for Windows; obviously anything which

boots the kernel, Linux, can read and write ext2fs. There may well exist

UFS drivers for Windows but I haven't looked. (I only use OpenBSD on my

firewall/router.)
If you can live with the limitations of FAT32, then you may want to use

that; fragmentation really isn't as much of an issue if it's a solid

state device (you don't say). I personally find it ludicrous not to be

able to use a filename on a Unix-like OS that wasn't legal in Microsoft

MS-DOS 1.0 (e.g. filenames with colons).
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Shawn K. Quinn