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by prmoustache 1383 days ago
Are the filesystem used on bsd and linux distros patent encumbered? Isn't UFS2 simple enough?
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mort96 1383 days ago
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.
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RealStickman_ 1382 days ago
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...

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yyyk 1383 days ago
If you wish for an fs common to both BSD and Linux, ext2fs would be perfect - better than UFS for the job.
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