ntfs-3g vs. ext2ifs

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:12:15PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> 2009/7/27 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:30:05AM -0400, meng wrote:
> >> I'm getting an external drive enclosure for an old IDE hard drive.
> >>
> >> I going to load data(and movies) on it and want it accessible from Windows XP and Linux.
> >> As to the file system, should I use ext2/3 on the drive and use ext2ifs to access it from Windows?
> >> Or use the ntfs file system and use ntfs-3g to access the drive from Linux?
> >>
> >> I use Linux so the answer should be self-evident but will appreciate any considerations that I may have overlooked.
> >> Any help will be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks and cheers :-)
> >
> > The obvious answer would be: Use FAT32.
> >
> > Sure you are limited to 4GB files, but that isn't usually a problem.
> 
> It isn't?  Tell that to a DVD image file.  I don't keep more than one
> or two lying around at any given time, but one was enough to convince
> me I didn't need to use FAT32 anymore.

Well certainly video DVDs contain multiple 1GB files, not 4GB+ files.
Raw iso dumps of a DVD would be bigger.  I suppose you could learn to
use split and cat.

I would't let windows write to ext2/3, and I don't trust ntfs writing
from linux, so for exchanging data I will stick to fat32.  For the few
files over 4GB I can split them.  They don't happen often enough to be
a problem.

Anyhow, some people claim ntfs-3g works well.

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Len Sorensen
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