How is Hardy' NTFS support? What other file systems work in both XP and Ubuntu?

[BigWoop]

I'm not a linux expert, but as far as I know from reading a couple years ago, in linux ntfs is not that good, especially writing to ntfs volumes.

Is it any better these days and why is it not so good in the first place?

I'm interested because I want to set up a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu, and have some volumes shared between the two OSes, so if not NTFS I have to use FAT32, unless there is another good file system someone can recommend that will work well in both.

Thanks.

[shifty_powers]

used it lots, and never had a problem. It is true that the ntfs support was a bit flaky at first, but now, the ntfs3g drivers are top notch.

[michaelaly]

I've had great results running a 500gb external on NTFS under Gutsy and Hardy. FAT32 works very well as a go-between file system as well. I haven't had any corrupted files, and there's a lot of reading/writing going on with very large files.
There are ways to get windows to read ext3 file systems I believe, but I'm not sure how well it works. Maybe someone else can post more information.

[F4l3]

I'm not a linux expert, but as far as I know from reading a couple years ago, in linux ntfs is not that good, especially writing to ntfs volumes.

Is it any better these days and why is it not so good in the first place?

I'm interested because I want to set up a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu, and have some volumes shared between the two OSes, so if not NTFS I have to use FAT32, unless there is another good file system someone can recommend that will work well in both.

Thanks.

the best supported is FAT32. But NTFS works pretty well

[starcannon]

NTFS mounts, reads, and writes fine here.

[BigWoop]

OK it's good to see that it seems to work OK, as I might have to go with it, given FAT32 file and volume size limitations.

[shifty_powers]

there are also ext2 drrivers available for windows, but you might as well use ntfs...

[kamitsukai]

im using the ext2 filesystem and xp can read/write to it perfectly once the ext2 drivers are installed (takes 5 seconds)

[darth_indy]

I had to do some config to make NTFS work in Feisty, but in both Gutsy an dHardy there were no problems, and it all worked out of the box.

[wootah]

im using the ext2 filesystem and xp can read/write to it perfectly once the ext2 drivers are installed (takes 5 seconds)

http://www.fs-driver.org/

I use this driver with Windows XP Pro. Works great; never had any problems. The only problem with this driver is that is does not maintain the permissions :/