The 4 Gig max filesize of vfat makes it unusable for me. I used ntfs-3g for more than a year on 4 different HDD, all around 1 TB and had no problems with stability, data loss or any problems at all. Performance is ok, but not very fast. I got rates of max. 15 MByte/s on Encrypted USB 2.0 Truecrypt HDDs.
An Windows ext2/ext3 is also an alternative: http://www.fs-driver.org/ But there are some limitations. Check their FAQ. I would the the fuse ntfs-3g driver, so you don't have to alter your windows installation and it is usable at a friend's windows pc. One problem I encountered with ntfs-3g is that it consumes 99% CPU and the transfer rate drops below 1 MByte if you got only 10% space left and the data is fragmented. Keep that in mind. One contra for ext3 is that is uses 10+ GByte more space for the filesystem and journal (on 1 TB Drives). Sebastian On Sunday 07 March 2010 19:50:12 Russell Gadd wrote: > 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). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003072357.45746.sebastian.weisger...@dystopianfuture.de
