This isn't for me personally, it's for a work project. Those kind of 
work-arounds are definitely not going to be acceptable. :)

-DMZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Lenski [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] NTFS Support on Linux status?

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

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