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From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:25:27 -0300
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...
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On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:48:45 Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>wrote:
> > I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had
> > come a long way these days.  It does seem to work well for all my
> > purposes, except these VMs.  Had hoped NTFS was not the issue.
> 
> ntfs/ntfs-3g is foolhardy at best in linux *and* fbsd ... it's trashed so
> many drives.partitions on me it's not even funny anymore... and I never did
> much w/ them except small stuff anyway. If you need to access the volumes
> in *nix/windows then why not FAT32 then? I use a FAT32 drive for my music
> so I can access it in any OS reliably and the drive is now 6+ years old.

FAT32 max file size is 4Gig.


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