Thanks, I will check out these suggestions.  Looks like there are more
options than I initially thought.


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Tony Rick <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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