vfat vs. ntfs

[Marcelo Magno T Sales]

Hi,

Em Quinta 23 Março 2006 18:46, Josh Coffman escreveu:
> 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.

If you have a separate partition for data in your windows 
installation, maybe it would be better to use ext2/ext3. There's a 
native ext2 file system driver for Windows. See:
http://www.fs-driver.org/
I think it's safer and certainly faster then captive ntfs.

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Marcelo