On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 20:51 -0400, stan wrote: > 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). -- Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
