Re: exFAT as the new "portable" filesystem?

[Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79%yahoo.com@localhost>]

What about UDF (the file system for rewritable optical media)? Is it possible 
to put UDF on other media without problems?
Its open, available across multiple platforms, but I am sure there is some 
catch: any comments? Seems like it would work just to exchange data and you are 
not concerned about e.g., UNIX permissions (since FAT32 and I assume exFAT also 
does not have this).

>From this table, it seems suitable for NetBSD (NetBSD seems to haver very good 
>support for features):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format#Table_of_operating_systems

--- On Wed, 12/8/10, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: exFAT as the new "portable" filesystem?
To: "Jasper Wallace" <jasper%pointless.net@localhost>
Cc: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Received: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 3:56 PM

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jasper Wallace <jasper%pointless.net@localhost> 
wrote:
> Not saber-rattling, you *will* need a licence to ship devices (or, in the
> US, code) that supports exFAT:

Well, that ends any chance of using exFAT then.

> I've used ext2fs to move files between os's see this:
>
> http://pointless.net/blog/2009/09/22/maximally-compatible-ext2fs/

Why use ext2? It's for Linux. Just as UFS is for BSD. There needs to
be something new.

Why is it that nobody can agree on a portable filesystem then? I guess
these companies really don't want to make this easy. FAT32 is still
the only one that really answers this question, but it's not a good
answer...

Andy