My use case is external USB drives. A lot of comments in this discussion have said "use a network drive!". Which works in some scenarios, but brings a lot of co

My use case is external USB drives. A lot of comments in this discussion have said "use a network drive!". Which works in some scenarios, but brings a lot of complication.= over a USB drive. A $85 USB 2.5" drive carries a terabyte of data, fits in your pocket, needs only a single cable to use (and no external power), and transfers data faster than 100MBps ethernet. Or if you really care about speed, $40 gets you a 64GB USB3 flash drive that's faster than gigabit ethernet. The problem is there's no filesystem you can write on these drives that every machine can read.