On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 13:02 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: > Can anybody tell me about or point me to writing on differences between > & comparative strengths & weaknesses of EXT3 & NTFS ?
Ext3 is faster than NTFS for most use cases (it avoids fragmentation better than NTFS by trying to write files to contiguous space rather than the first available free space like NTFS does). Its also quite faster in disk check times. As someone said, both Ext3 and NTFS only journal meta data by default, but you can have full journaling if you want, either via the j attribute on particularly important files or by changing the whole FS to do full journaling with tune2fs. You can read/write NTFS in Linux and read/write Ext3 in Windows. You just need software 'captive NTFS' for Linux and 'ext3fsd' for Windows Ext3 also has POSIX ACLs like NTFS does, though someone said otherwise. Someone said NTFS supports sparse files. Are you sure? IIRC Virtual Server 2005 (MSs VMware competitor) has to do all kinds of clunky stuff cause NTFS doesn't support sparse files... Mike -- Mike MacCana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
