On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 8:11 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The next question is how to create a single filesystem on a USB attached >> device ( like a USB Stick from SanDisk or Kingston etc ) where the >> filesystem is supported and read/write functional on all of >> Win32/Win64/Linux and Solaris/UNIX. >> >> I don't think that NTFS is worth looking at because it is closed and >> proprietary. Microsoft could bork that up at a whim without telling anyone. >> The only two others I see are old world FAT nd FAT32. The FAT type >> filesystem is too small and restricted for anything real world. That leaves >> FAT32. >> >> Am I missing anything ? Any suggestions ? > > Dennis, > > As long as your media is less than 32GB FAT32 should be ok. > Another possibility is UDF. Although last time I check Windows > considered it to be read-only (that was quite some time ago and > I am not sure what is the status today)
FAT32 larger than 32GB just works "fine" (apart from the abysmal speed if a filesystem of that size gets fragmented), even on Windows. The problem is that Windows will not let you create and/or properly scandisk/chkdsk such a large FAT32. But that's an arbitrary limitation created by Microsoft to push people towards NTFS (and to avoid having to deal with service inquiries ... or the need to improve the implementation). If you create the fs under Linux or Solaris, and fsck it under Linux, there's no issue at all with using a FAT32 filesystem of up to 1TB. If you really want to go beyond that, hmm - no good idea either. FrankH. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
