Mac OS X Can read NTFS?!

[Westside guy]

Not heard of Ext2 before - I'll give it a look. My likely solution is going to be a large Raid 5 array on the desktop PC over gbit networking, but it's always cool to have options available!

Ext2 is one of the native Linux filesystems. It's actually better to use Ext3 if possible, since that version added journaling.

 

[MacWanted]

Can someone tell me how NTFS support would impact a future switcher, like myself?

 

[seanf]

It's actually better to use Ext3 if possible...

Yes, but I don't think there are thoroughly tested Mac and Windows drivers for Ext3 - I could be wrong.

Can someone tell me how NTFS support would impact a future switcher, like myself?

First we need some information. Do you have external drives that you want to be able to connect to a Mac and a PC? Do you want to be able to write to a Bootcamp partition from OS X? Do you store files larger than 4GB?

Sean 🙂

 

[MacWanted]

First we need some information. Do you have external drives that you want to be able to connect to a Mac and a PC? Do you want to be able to write to a Bootcamp partition from OS X? Do you store files larger than 4GB?

Sean 🙂

No to all. I will soon have only one Mac and I will mainly use it for text documents.

 

[seanf]

No to all. I will soon have only one Mac and I will mainly use it for text documents.

Good news is that lack of built-in NTFS write support shouldn't affect you at all.

Sean 🙂