[PLUG] USB portable drive

[Tony Rick]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Johnson <teknotus at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:50 PM, VY <vyau5678 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between
> > Linux, Win XP and MacOS X.
> > It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit.  Is NTFS the
> right
> > format to go?  I
> > seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to NTFS.  Just want to see if
> > anyone else has similar experience
> > to share.
>
> I've been thinking that the solution to this type of problem is to
> instead of getting a USB drive get a small NAS server.  They handle
> just about every network file sharing protocol.  FTP, HTTP, NFS,
> SAMBA, and whatever it is that Mac OS uses plus block sharing
> protocols like iSCSI, and ATAoE.  I don't know how easy it is to use
> one outside of a lan though.  It seems like a crossover cable would
> work, but assigning a network address might be tricky.


Did you ever look at MacFUSE or NTFS-3G (includes McFUSE) for NTFS on Mac?

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2009/04/ntfs-3g-200944.html

- tony