On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:50 PM, VY <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between > > Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. > > It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit. Is NTFS the > right > > format to go? I > > seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to NTFS. Just want to see if > > anyone else has similar experience > > to share. > > I've been thinking that the solution to this type of problem is to > instead of getting a USB drive get a small NAS server. They handle > just about every network file sharing protocol. FTP, HTTP, NFS, > SAMBA, and whatever it is that Mac OS uses plus block sharing > protocols like iSCSI, and ATAoE. I don't know how easy it is to use > one outside of a lan though. It seems like a crossover cable would > work, but assigning a network address might be tricky. Did you ever look at MacFUSE or NTFS-3G (includes McFUSE) for NTFS on Mac? http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2009/04/ntfs-3g-200944.html - tony _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
