Filesystem for what/which ?

[Rastalovich]

Commonly, NTFS is the best solution for ur Vista/XP - perhaps a FAT32 partition if u have some concerns and want to easily dos something in an emergency, with it`s limitations.

On ur nix, u have Ext2/ExFS? or whatever.

On ur Mac u have the HFS(journaled, maybe).

Each with it`s own pros and cons.

Now, if u wanted a drive to be natively r/w by both Mac and Vista, without installing cute apps, would both of them happily use the Ext2/3 ? Maybe u wanted to be able to eSATA/USB/firewire a drive.

I know the Mac will read NTFS, and it`d be a lesser pita if a drive or so could stay NTFS, but for writing u need to install something - which I`d like to avoid (unless it`s cast-iron as a result and not flakey in anyway)

Any real drawback to formatting drives ext2 ? (assuming the Mac r/w to that that is) Will be mainly data, media stuff possibly.

 

[Rastalovich]

S`ok, have been talked into trying NTFS-3g with MacFuse. Apparently we use it in work too.

 

[nathan]

can vista read ext by default, i thought you had to install some sort of driver/software package

 

[Zoot]

I don't think Vista can read ext, Vista isn't able to read the ext2 partition I have for Ubuntu.

I heard XFS is the file system of the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS

 

[Rastalovich]

Well that pretty much seals it then, I kinda banked on Vista reading a linux flavor tbh.

I`m trying the stable ntfs-3g version, not the one that`s been patched for speed, and it seems to be going ok.

 

[JN]

On linux I normally use XFS as its pretty darn quick. Only issue is that it doesn't like power outages (as I've found out before) and generally renders any files that are open during a powerdown totally fubared.

For Win its got to be NTFS with 8.3 file name generation switched off in registry.