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Originally Posted by llama64
I think he means that support for NTFS on Linux/OSX is immature. I still havn't had time to give this a go yet so I can't confirm, but I don't doubt that I'll have problems.
Chances are, I'll have more problems getting the drive to be properly shared on the router.
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Immature, exactly. For reading/writing a few files in a pinch, I'm sure it works well, probably very well.
Boundary cases like working with nearly full volumes, situations where the MFT (master file table) needs to be extended, files with resource streams (yes, Windows has resource forks too), junctions, files with unicode filenames, etc, etc, etc, I have my doubts. Again, it probably works most of the time, but if you hit a bug from using anything other than the Windows NTFS drivers to write data, you can potentially kiss it all goodbye.
If you are talking about plugging the drive into an Airport Extreme, NTFS ain't gonna work anyways. There, your best bet is to format it HFS+ on the Mac, since it speaks HFS and HFS is a more robust file system than FAT32.
