The VGA of file systems? Seems like it is the defacto standard

>>60738130
I think it's still around because it's the last support universal file system (before the NTFS, ext and what ever the fuck apple is using now split)

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>>60738130
>defacto

>>60738559
this, and because even a drunken monkey could write a fat32 driver

random-access, no permission system to get in the way, easy to implement with very few critical features, still "good enough" for a lot of purposes
not sure about it being freely implementable, microsoft would say it isn't, but skimming the wikipedia article suggests it's not very clear

that and windows is a big platform, and the few things it supports has a big effect on what other things use

>>60738667
random-access/writable i should say
that is, excluding things like iso9660, which is certainly well supported, but isn't writable

it kind of surprises me how little UDF is used, it would seem like people don't realise that it supports random-writing, and only really sees use in places iso9660 did, on optical media, which are physically mostly read-only
UDF is supported to almost the same extent as FAT32, and is a year older than FAT32, yet it doesn't have the filesize limitation FAT32 does, it can store a file the size of it's volume limit, which as a writable filesystem is the same as FAT32, 2TiB

>>60738759
(if you're not familiar with UDF, it's most commonly seen as being the filesystem DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD uses)

FAT32 is great because fuck you NTFS metadata

>>60738130
Can't store a decent 1080p movie rip on a FAT32-formatted usb drive.

>>60738130
NTFS is the most widely supported between OS' if you need data exchange.

Defacto standard for standalone equipment is ext4 because most of it is running Linux.

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>>60739255
Bullshit.

My android smartphone will read a fat32 formatted flash card so will my bluray player.