I am sick of getting owned by OSX's seriously annoying interoperability limitation whereby it can't write to NTFS volumes (ie. >4G). Has anyone used NTFS-3G ? It claims decent performance comparative to other File Systems, but before I go and reformat / move my existing archives from HFS over, um, yeah. Anyone used it?

Iv used it in Ubuntu, was nice and fast, stable, no file corruption or anything else.

What version of NTFS does Windows use? Its annoying that you can't write to those partitions.

groovy

I will check it out

I've used it in the past. Last time I did though, write speeds were slow as s***e. Essentially, it's comparible to network writing speeds (since it maps the volume as a networked drive).

Yeah apparently stability/corruption is not an issue at all, just the speeds aren't ideal. Would be fine for documents and media in my opinion, wouldn't use it as a working partition. I didn't have issues with it when I used it a couple of years back.

it's comparible to network writing speeds (since it maps the volume as a networked drive).

Yeah I don't think that's relevant. You can copy files over loopback at a decent speed with most OSs and filesystems. I think their more thorough answer has more merit:

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#slow

last edited by parabol at 01:09:20 21/Jan/09

Looks like the only real issue is it will disable being able to change the default boot on bootcamp to Windows inside system prefs? Alt to choose OS still works tho.

I currently use this package as a transparent method to image the windows boot partition for backing up and restoring.
I've never had it not work in about the 2 years using it in high volume.
Highly recommended.

I currently use this package as a transparent method to image the windows boot partition for backing up and restoring.

Is this something different to what WinClone does?

Is this something different to what WinClone does?

I've only ever used NTFS-3g to shrink C:\ to an image, not for deployment/specific bootcamp work.
Running as package under Arch Linux within simple menu:

1: Backup DRIVE0
2: Restore DRIVE0
3: Schedule CHKDSK