On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:34 -0400, David Zakar wrote: > Anyone know what the current status of NTFS is on Linux, specifically > reading and writing very large files (> 4GB)? I might need to shuttle > around some of those huge files in a cross-platform fashion > (Linux/Mac/PC), and NTFS seemed like a reasonable choice.
I will chime in with my good impressions of ntfs-3g. I have not done any scientific testing, but I have never had problems with data corruption or significant performance issues, even when using KVM to virtualize disk images running off NTFS partitions. That being said, there are ext2/3/4 drivers for Mac OS X and for Windows as well, so if you do *most* of your work under Linux and just occasionally need to transfer files to a couple of specific computers running other OSes, you might be better off installing ext2 drivers on those systems. Dan
