I think that the best choice is FAT32 it will works out-of-the-box on all systems a usb stick isn't a device that must have some performance IMHO
2007/9/8, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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]> > > -- .''`. Andrea Ferraresi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : irc.FreeNode.net #lslug | JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] . `` Registered Linux user #388877 and Machine #289399 `- WebMaster http://www.ls-lug.org
