Best filesystem for 128GB USB Thumbdrive Win/Mac

[nyteschayde]

I searched Aminet for HFS+ file system entries and it doesn't seem like there is one that would work for the modern incarnation of HFS. I looked for ExFAT and there are some OS4.x implementations.

There is FAT32 but there seems to be some potential issues with directory length and disk size; in this case 128GB. Perhaps I am wrong about the FAT32 stuff.

Should I endeavor to make EXT2 work with my MacOS installation and/or Windows machines? EXT2 and EXT3 are certainly superior to FAT32 and there seems to be a driver for EXT2/3 on Aminet.

Thoughts? Has anybody used this with Trident4.4/Subway?

[nyteschayde]

What is your intended purpose of the thumb drive?

For most versatility i recommend keeping the FAT32 fs.

If you aim for large files and data transfer between modern systems, NTFS will work in most these systems. with a little hassle it will work in a mac.

Making Windows system reading HFS or EXT partitions will be hard work.
Software like "get data back" will read and let you "salvage" files from a EXT drive. but usage will be severely limited.

I am using this to update a large set of Amiga files that are downloaded and maintained on a USB thumbdrive of 128GB in size, but that I also want the Amiga to be able to write to and read from.

Long name support and maintaining the case of file names when viewed on the Amiga side is critical.

[nyteschayde]

FAT95 on the Amiga side supports up to 104 characters long filenames.  PFS does up to 107 characters.  FFS, as I recall, is limited to 30 characters.  If that information is helpful to you, at all?

FWIW Some directory utilities choke when reading long file names, in my experience.

Personally I'd just FAT95 (FAT32) and be done with it, if you have any plans to transfer this flash drive among different computers.

PFS and FFS won't work because I cannot mount those, to my knowledge, on Mac and Windows based systems. The FAT95 long filename support should suffice. So thanks!