vfat vs. ntfs

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 13:46 -0800, 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.

I don't know how good it is - but I thought there was a commercial ext2
driver for Windows.

I think there are some free ones too.

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm