Hi list, I'm expecting delivery of a new notebook any day now (woohoo!), and it comes with Windows XP Pro. In the past I usually wiped Windows off the disks of new PCs as a matter of course, and gave the MS license to somebody I hate... :) This time I'm planning to keep a Windows partition and dual-boot the machine. The main reason is that I have to use some proprietary Windows-only software to get movies off my digital set top box. The files are typically anywhere from 1GB to 8GB in size, and I want to edit, transcode and burn them to DVD in FC4. The software doesn't work under Wine, and I don't want to spend money on a VMware license. My question is this: what is the best filesystem for both OS'es to use for sharing these files? I suppose NTFS is the way to go, since previous Windows filesystems don't support files that large (correct?), and Windows can't use any of Linux's filesystems (correct?). Has NTFS support in FC4 matured to a point where it can be used to routinely process large files? How about performance? The notebook comes with a 100GB disk, and I have to make this filesystem decision before I can decide on the split between Windows and Linux partitions. Cheers Steffen.
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