Subject: Re: file systems for large, removable drives?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/27/2006 10:25:15 
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I'm contemplating adding a large, removable (USB) disk to some systems,
> to hold (legal) MP3s.  The question is what file system to use.
> 
> I can clearly use FFS, but that's NetBSD-only; I couldn't share the drive
> with a Windows box.  FAT32 is, as I recall, size-limited; certainly,
> Windows won't even format a large partition that way.  NetBSD can't write
> NTFS file systems.  Are there other options?

There's an FFS driver for billgatesware around somewhere from memory.