Filesystems on USB drives

Can USB sticks be formatted with any filesystem? They seem to come by
default formatted as FAT (or is it VFAT?) but I wonder whether that's
because vendors assume that the stick will be used under Windows, or
because the stick (for some reason) does not support anything else?


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