I've been using Vfat for data partitions which I can access from both Linux
and Windows (multibooted). Recently I added another hard drive formatted
NTFS and have had no trouble getting Lenny to use it.

I am wondering now whether to convert my Vfat partitions to NTFS as there
are some advantages. For example I recently forgot about the 4GB file
restriction of Vfat when trying to download a DVD iso - it got to 4GB then
gave up so I had to redownload again to the NTFS volume. I suspect NTFS is
more reliable at least in Windows. Are there any potential issues in Linux -
e.g. reliability / speed.

Should I go NTFS now for my data files? (keeping the main Lenny root
filesystem on an ext3 partition).

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