> Yeah... I don't know what filesystem the industry might gravitated to in lieu > of FAT. Perhaps it would be a Linux filesystem, but maybe not. What other > formats are available and free? > > Then again, there's still the issue of windows users not being able to use > anything that isn't approved of by Redmond. Would it be possible to load a > driver to read file format X? Or would that be an internal-to-the-device > issue, where the device externally spoke something any OS could use?
Windows uses the same "virtual file system interface" concept that Linux and most Unix systems use. So yes, you can plug in another file system if you have the right drivers from a vendor or open source developer (hint, hint). I guess you could even theoretically replace NTFS with ufs or ext2. You would lose a lot of functionality that you have with NTFS though.
