Tag: ntfs-3g
Cross-platform filesystem access
by Mostafa on Nov.21, 2006, under How To ..., Linux, Software
Looks like the ntfs-3g driver has already gained a lot of popularity and is quite easy to use:
The driver itself is supposedly available from the Fedora Extras repository for FC6 onwards. Completely safe read/write access to NTFS drives from Linux — now that’s a dream come true!
In the meanwhile, it looks like there’s also a windows Ext2 file-system driver that allows full read/write access to Ext2/3 volumes:
Ext2 Installable File System For Windows
Of course, one of the drawbacks here is that the Ext3 volume is mounted as Ext2 — so there is no journaling support. In case of a ‘dirty’ unmount e2fsck will have to be run. The other drawback is the fact that is won’t work with LVM.
So, these drivers really open up a lot of choices. But I guess the best option is to have the shared drive as NTFS since the ntfs-3g driver takes care of journaling.