[mort96]

It would be great to have a non-patent-encumbered simple file format that's supported everywhere. The fact that this is based on FAT32 might help adoption, everyone's computers can already at least read a BigFAT drive, and BigFAT support could be added at the application level for systems which don't support it at an OS level.

[prmoustache]

Are the filesystem used on bsd and linux distros patent encumbered? Isn't UFS2 simple enough?

[mort96]

UFS2 might be the technically perfect tool for the job, but that doesn't matter when Windows doesn't support it. A camera manufacturer or SD card manufacturer can't start shipping their customers SD cards formatted with UCS2 when it's not supported by Windows. They could start shipping FAT32 SD cards and software and firmware which can read and write FAT32+BigFAT.

[RealStickman_]

In my opinion UDF [1] would be a great option. Although it's mainly used in DVDs, it can also be created as read/write capable. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

[2] https://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/05/13/using-udf-as-an-impro...

[yyyk]

If you wish for an fs common to both BSD and Linux, ext2fs would be perfect - better than UFS for the job.