vfat vs. ntfs

[Dan]

Josh Coffman wrote:
> I have a need for a partition for sharing files
> between fedora and windows boots.
>
> I was using vfat for it. I re-did my partitions when I
> installed fc5. I made it a vfat, but I was wondering
> if ntfs writes are any better than they used to be. 
>
> I'd rather use ntfs than vfat, but not is writing
> under linux is really slow.
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No, ntfs writing is not yet feasible. From what I've heard, you can only 
write to a file if it doesn't change the size. No file/folder creation 
either. I've started using ext2 as my sharing partitions on my desktop, 
since there's a driver for that for windows 
(http://e2fsprogs.sf.net/ext2.html Ext2fsd). It takes a little mucking 
to mount the drives correctly (a command from cmd and a new registry 
entry) but once that's done it shows up as a normal lettered drive. 
Unfortunately it isn't the most stable driver, I got BSODs by running 
.exes off of one of my partitions for a while, seemingly caused by 
/system32/driver/sptd.sys (no idea why I had this file, it's apparently 
from Daemon Tools).
-Dan