[PLUG] NTFS on a USB flash drive?

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:11:04PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> The packaging makes much of its claimed "up to" 60 MB/s read and
> 25 MB/s write speed, but says nothing of operating systems. Can Macs
> read NTFS? Is it wise to leave it NTFS?

(made me look)
The ever useful Wikipedia has a page comparing file systems:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
including a chart of OS support:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Supporting_operating_systems
Which shows Mac OS does not support, but Mac OSX does with "NTFS-3G" which happens to link to a page describing what it is:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G
Which works with the FUSE interface in OSX.

And NTFS-3G is a 2006 fork of the Linux-NTFS project.
And the Mac support was announced in late 2009.

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